Achievement of C1 level in receptive skills, B2+ in productive skills.
Consolidation of:
a) knowledge and understanding of the main features of the foreign language;
b) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes and intentions;
c) ability to analyze written texts using acquired knowledge;
d) ability to use translation resources and tools;
e) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological issues relating to translation as linguistic and cultural mediation;
f) application of acquired knowledge to texts used in selected professional contexts;
g) ability to solve different problematic issues in cultural contexts characterized by the use of the foreign language.
h) autonomous learning skills;
Translation of short texts.
Consolidation of:
a) knowledge and understanding of the main features of the foreign language;
b) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes and intentions;
c) ability to analyze written texts using acquired knowledge;
d) ability to use translation resources and tools;
e) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological issues relating to translation as linguistic and cultural mediation;
f) application of acquired knowledge to texts used in selected professional contexts;
g) ability to solve different problematic issues in cultural contexts characterized by the use of the foreign language.
h) autonomous learning skills;
Translation of short texts.
teacher profile teaching materials
G. COOK, Applied Linguistics. Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
M. GUIDO, 2004, Mediating Cultures, A Cognitive Approach to English Discourse for the Social Sciences, LED: Modules 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 16.
Programme
Introduction to applied linguistics and to the key concepts of translation theory (equivalence, functionalist and descriptive approaches, text-analysis and intercultural mediation) and strategies, in translating simple texts from English into Italian. The analysis of Standard English forms and functions as well as syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of specialized discourse, as a starting point for (i) the acquisition of linguistic competences in professional intercultural mediation where students will interact inside multilingual and multiethnic contexts; and (ii) the application of translation strategies and practices within communicative domains influenced by speakers’ cognitive-functional dimensions and native pragmalinguistic tools, which may produce emerging sociocultural asymmetries with reference to power, status, gender and provenance.Core Documentation
S. COLINA, 2015, Fundamentals of Translation, Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.G. COOK, Applied Linguistics. Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
M. GUIDO, 2004, Mediating Cultures, A Cognitive Approach to English Discourse for the Social Sciences, LED: Modules 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 16.
Type of evaluation
ORAL END-OF-YEAR EXAM.