Course Title: English Language Skills for Interpreters

Part A: Course Overview

Course ID: 031744

Program: C5116

Course Title: English Language Skills for Interpreters

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 20.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5273L

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Face-to-Face

 Term1 2007

Course Contact: Sedat.Mulayim

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9920

Course Contact Email: sedat.mulayim@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

Students develop appropriate English language skills, to enable them to communicate effectively with clients, other professionals and colleagues. Specific emphases are placed on:
 Listening comprehension
 Accurate reproduction of oral texts
 Appropriate use of idiom, collocation, grammar/syntax, idiom, register, and vocabulary in context
 Appropriate pronunciation, intonation and stress
Language extension and consolidation strategies are put in place for learners so they can continue to develop their English language skills in a self-directed way.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Successful completion of a bilingual intake test.



National Competency Codes and Titles

00274

English Language Skills for Interpreters

Learning Outcomes

1. Prepare effectively for interpreting dialogues, and employ effective research skills.
2. Practise English language skills appropriate to domains in which dialogue takes place.
3. Practise features of oral English appropriate for communicating in dialogues with clients in a face-to-face situation.
4. Practise listening comprehension to aspects of oral English outlined in elements 1, 2 & 3 (above) including listening comprehension appropriate to interpreting using telecommunication technologies.


Overview of Assessment

Successful completion of learning outcome activities.