MELA47930: Consecutive Interpreting Chinese English

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• MELA41730 Specialised Translation Chinese <> English

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• This module aims to develop students' skills and techniques for performing accurate and fluent consecutive interpretation between Chinese and English in various simulated settings through intensive training, rehearsal, and practice.

• Students will be guided to work on speeches in a range of genres, styles, and topics to develop core skills in consecutive interpreting, such as active listening, note-taking, memory retention, logical analysis, and reproduction.
• Strategies for handling different speeds of delivery, accents, speech mannerisms, numbers, terminologies, and cultural-specific concepts will be drilled and discussed.
• Students will be instructed to provide consecutive interpretation in various simulated settings and develop excellent public speaking and organisation skills, as well as coping mechanisms for stress management.
• Guidelines for preparation, terminology research and management, ethics and professional conduct of interpreters will be provided.
• Self-monitoring and self- and peer-evaluation techniques will also be covered.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• A comprehensive knowledge of the consecutive interpreting process, requirements, and settings.
• A good knowledge of the key skills and strategies required for professional delivery of a consecutive interpreting task.
• Working knowledge of consecutive interpreting in a wide range of topics, speech genres and styles and a critical understanding of self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and peer-evaluation techniques
• Comprehensive knowledge of ethics and professional conduct of interpreters.
• Familiarity with the key literature and Internet resources for interpreters.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Ability to conduct search and preparation for consecutive interpreting tasks.
• Ability to carry out consecutive interpreting tasks with accuracy, fluency, and confidence under pressure.
• Ability to employ techniques and strategies selectively to perform consecutive interpreting in various simulated settings, paying particular attention to the use of language register and tone.
• Ability to monitor personal delivery in the interpreting process and provide professional evaluation of own and peer interpretation.

Key Skills:

• Enhanced public speaking skills, interpersonal and organisational skills
• Ability to work under pressure

• The module consists of 60 contact hours taught at the rate of three hours per week for 20 weeks
• This module is taught as a combination of seminars and practicals.
• Each week students will be given reading and/or practical tasks to prepare for the following week. They will also need to complete a weekly task related to what they have learned in each session.
• The summative assessment has two components: an English-into-Chinese consecutive interpreting task (50%) and a Chinese-into-English consecutive interpreting task (50%). The pass mark is 50%.

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