Course Title: Discourse Studies for Interpreters

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6067

Course Title: Discourse Studies for Interpreters

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 80.0

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Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
LANG5396	City Campus	TAFE	365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng	Face-to-Face	Term1 2007, Term1 2010, Term2 2010, Term1 2011, Term2 2011

Course Contact: Brad Paez

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99250362

Course Contact Email: brad.paez@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This course is designed to develop students’ practical listening, speaking and oral reproduction skills, and to introduce the lexicon and phraseology of various professional discourses.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Delivered together with Context and Practice of Interpreting 2.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

VBN932 Discourse Studies for Interpreters

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be expected to be able to demonstrate an ability to identify features of spoken language, and proficiency in a number of listening, speaking and oral reproduction exercises relevant to the interpreting process.  These will include exhibiting effective speaking skills in relation to the production of short texts; paying particular attention to intonation and cohesive devices appropriate to oral texts; exhibiting effective listening, speaking and oral skills in relation to the comprehension and accurate summarising of short oral texts; and exhibiting effective listening, speaking and oral skills in relation to the comprehension and accurate reporduction in full of short oral texts.

Overview of Assessment

Three Learning Outcome tasks.