• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Dr Myriem El Maizi
• Lecturer: Dr JC Penet, Dr Noelia Cacheiro Quintas, Dr Helen Ferstenberg, Mrs Antje Moench, Dr Philippa Page
• Other Staff: Mrs Carole Moore, Mrs Elena Vignali, Ms Jessica Rainey

• Owning School: Modern Languages
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

1.       For students to gain a broad knowledge of the key theoretical and practical issues involved in professional translation.
2.       In one of up to eight B>>A-language* combinations (English>>French, English>>German, English>>Italian, English>>Spanish, French>>English, German>>English, Italian>>English or Spanish>>English), for students to:
•       Develop professional-level text-analysis, translating, post-editing, and translating-teamwork skills in 2-4 professional genres.
•       Gain an analytic and reflective understanding of their own and others’ translation practice, as a basis for further professional development.
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*A-language is the translator’s language of main use (typically the mother tongue), and B-language the language of secondary use (typically a foreign or second language).

Outline Of Syllabus

•       Analysing and translating/post-editing texts in 2-4 genres
•       Academic writing for translation studies: translations, commentaries, referring to sources
•       Equivalence, translating/interpreting factors & distances
•       Translation/interpreting and semantic meaning
•       Translation/interpreting and pragmatic meaning
•       Translation/interpreting and discourse analysis
•       Skopos, function and norms
•       Translating/interpreting processes & strategies
•       Translating/Interpreting Culture
•       Loyalty and creativity
•       Quality and the translation/interpreting professional
•       Key concepts and tools in post-graduate academic reading and writing

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Jointly Taught With

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

A module talk introduces students to the module and explains learning/teaching methods. Lectures give a grounding in the key theoretical and practical issues involved in translation, and enable students to engage with the required knowledge-base. Workshops give training in commentary-writing, reference skills and genre analysis, and link principles input to students’ own translations. Small-group Practicals give lecturer input on translation skills development, and develop written communication and problem-solving skills. Student-led groupwork consolidates and further develops translation and translation-advisory skills, and develops a range of key skills (e.g. planning and organising, initiative, teamwork).

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams

Other Assessment

Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

All assessments test students’ text-analysis, translation research and translating skills. The Portfolio commentary also tests the translation-studies knowledge outcomes of the module and their reflective integration with translation practice. Weekly homework texts are crucial for skills development.

Reading Lists

• SML8022's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• SML8022's Timetable