COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GER-TUR SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TER 4037 GER-TUR SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETING COMPULSORY 2 1 0 5

Offered By

Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR DILEK ALTINKAYA NERGIS

Offered to

Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Translation and Interpreting

Course Objective

The course objective is to equip students with beginner level skills for simultaneous interpreting, to familiarize them with work in the booth and to bring them up to a level of interpreting simple speeches simultaneously from German to Turkish.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students are expected to acquire knowledge regarding interpreting.
2   Students are expected to do preliminary preparation and research necessary before the interpreting practice for conferences on various topics.
3   Students are expected to tackle difficulties that may arise during simultaneous interpreting with skills and knowledge they have acquired.
4   Students are expected to act in a professional manner in the booth.
5   Students are expected to acquire general knowledge about issues frequently encountered in interpreting.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to simultaneous interpreting. The knowledge and skills an interpreter should have. Using equipment.
2 Booth manner and relations with clients, professional ethics memory exercises
3 Introducing international and national interpreting organizations Number exercises
4 Simultaneous interpreting techniques. Building semantic units. Reformulation. Simplification, omission, anticipation. Explicitation.
5 Interpreting short and simple sentences. Speech videos for practice. Transcription exercises
6 Class exercise. Speech topic: Marketing Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
7 Class exercise. Speech topic: Quality Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
8 Mid-term
9 Class exercise. Speech topic: Foreign policy Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
10 Class exercise. Speech topic: Press meetings Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
11 Class exercise. Speech topic: Interviews Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
12 Class exercise. Speech topic: Economy Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
13 Class exercise. Speech topic: Technology Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.
14 Class exercise. Speech topic: European Union - training seminars Preparing terminology and reading other relevant resources.

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXT BOOK(S)/ REFERENCES /
1. Text books
Kautz, Ulrich (2002). Handbuch Didaktik des Übersetzens und Dolmetschens. München: Iudicium.
Pöchhacker, Franz (2007): Dolmetschen. Konzeptuelle Grundlagen und deskriptive Untersuchungen, Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
2. Class Material
- Miscellaneous texts related to the topics that will be used in interpreting.
- Miscellaneous online resources including dictionaries, referential web sites etc.
- Speech texts
- Presentations
- Glossaries

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Classes
2. Preparation before classes

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PAR * 0.40 + FIN * 0.30
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PAR * 0.40 + RST * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1 - Exams will be conducted in the form of students animating a real speech or a presentation in the classroom, and will assess the student s skills of interpreting this speech into the target language in the booth. The student s interpreting will be recorded and then evaluated in terms of interpreting skills, fluency, accuracy, intonation and having a good command of terminology.
2- Before each class, a text, presentation or title of the week s topic will be given to students. Students will be asked to gather information, if available, about the meeting concerned and speakers and gather terminological data from both the materials provided and from extra materials. Other assignments will be video and audio recordings of speeches for students to do listening exercises and transcribe as class preparation.

Assessment Criteria

1. Oral tests that are recorded will be evaluated in terms of preparation, use of skills learned during the semester and fulfilling the tasks required.
2. The attendance grade will be based on (i) the student s participation in the class, (ii) the quality of the answers given by the student to questions asked by the instructor and (iii) the student s contribution to creating a positive learning environment.
3. For grades on the border between two grades, active participation in the class will justify the higher grade.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is compulsory.
2. Students are required to come to the class prepared.
3. Students are required to bring their own CD s or recording devices for this class.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.241232423534444
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LO.422322432342455
LO.522533533344112

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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