Course Name | Terminology Studies for Conference Interpreting |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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ETI 422 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
Prerequisites |
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Course Language | English | ||||||||
Course Type | Elective | ||||||||
Course Level | First Cycle | ||||||||
Mode of Delivery | face to face | ||||||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Group WorkCritical feedbackLecturing / Presentation | ||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||
Course Lecturer(s) | |||||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course aims at providing students with skills of terminology studies by referring to published and online terminology sources before conferences in various fields. Apart from terminology building, this course aims at providing the students with practices of making research and acquiring basic information on the subject of the conference in question. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | During courses, students will be provided with names of the speakers and/or subject of the conferences and/or briefs of the conference.Students prepare terminology database by using terminology management systems and by utilizing online and published sources. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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Supportive Courses | X | |
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Theoretic Information:Preparations required before the conference; Written and online terminology sources | Various online sources |
2 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
3 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
4 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
5 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
6 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
7 | Midterm | |
8 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
9 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
10 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
11 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
12 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
13 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
14 | Specific Topics in Terminology Studies | Various online sources |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Various articles |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Diriker, Ebru. 2005. Presenting Simultaneous Interpreting: Discourse of the Turkish media, 1988-2003 Gile, Daniel. 2009. The Effort Models of Interpreting. Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training R.Xu (2018) Corpus-based terminological preparation for simultaneous interpreting-R.Xu Interpreting, Vol. 20,Issue 1, Jan 2018, p. 29 – 58 R.Xu (2018) Corpus-based terminological preparation for simultaneous interpreting- Interpreting, Vol. 20,Issue 1, Jan 2018, p. 29 - 58 https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/intp.00002.xu |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 15 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | 1 | 15 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 25 |
Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 65 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 35 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 7 | 98 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 17 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | 1 | 17 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 35 | |
Total | 240 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, | |||||
2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, | X | ||||
3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, | X | ||||
4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, | |||||
5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, | X | ||||
6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, | |||||
7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, | X | ||||
8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, | |||||
9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, | |||||
10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, | X | ||||
11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, | |||||
12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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