Course Description
This course provides a chance to translate texts orally between English and Chinese with little prior preparation. Comprehension must precede the actual translation (as in all kinds of oral or written translation tasks) where language-specific problems such as vocabulary and structure must be solved instantaneously.
There will be exercises to familiarize students with different sight translation strategies, which can be applied to all translation and oral interpretation tasks.
Materials for sight translation in class will be assigned one week ahead for prior intensive reading, which will involve analyzing information, choosing the right words, summarizing and the ultimate rendering for presentation. The materials studied may be further used for oral presentations in either the source language or the target language where one must know how to coherently and succinctly identify the major points and know how to convey them while capturing the audience. This is in general a good training for verbal adeptness as well as accuracy/precision in future consecutive/simultaneous interpretation scenarios.

評量方式 Grading
Daily performance 30% Presentations 20% Final Exam 30% Journals 20%

進度 Syllabus
( Learning materials for this class come from news magazines/the internet. Content for practice is to be decided weekly based on current happenings/interests of the time as featured in the mass-media. )