Course Title: Use note taking to recall and reproduce source messages (LOTE-English)
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2020
Course Code: LANG5847C
Course Title: Use note taking to recall and reproduce source messages (LOTE-English)
School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6154 - Advanced Diploma of Interpreting (LOTE-English)
Course Contact: Ya-Ping Kuo
Course Contact Phone: +(61 3) 9925 3771
Course Contact Email: ya-ping.kuo@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Combined Lectures Teacher: Steph Palomares steph.palomares@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 30
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None.
Course Description
This unit describes the skills required to analyse the meaning of a source language message and to reproduce the message in the same language, applying note taking and other strategies to support retention and recall.
This unit applies to those working as interpreters in the consecutive mode who need to quickly and accurately analyse, remember and reproduce messages from a diverse range of sources, subjects and contexts.
This unit is delivered in a cluster as follows:
Monologue Cluster (Spoken languages)
- LANG5841C Interpret in complex monologue settings
- LANG5847C Use note taking to recall and reproduce source messages
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
PSPTIS087 Use note taking to recall and reproduce source messages (LOTE-English) |
Element: |
1. Analyse source messages |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Attend to source utterances and make adjustments to assist concentration and comprehension. 1.2 Analyse discourse and speaker’s strategies to predict discourse direction. 1.3 Determine key information and relationships between linguistic and non-linguistic elements in the utterances. 1.4 Identify structural elements of discourse. 1.5 Identify factors affecting the meaning of utterances. |
Element: |
2. Recall source messages |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Use a range of encoding and other strategies to support, retain and ensure the accuracy of information. 2.2 Manage discourse to ensure the quality and reliability of recall. 2.3 Resolve problems of understanding and recall and seek clarification as required. 2.4 Review key information and relationships in source utterances. 2.5 Analyse notes for usefulness in recollection of messages. |
Element: |
3. Reproduce source messages |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Retrieve message within appropriate timeframe. 3.2 Reproduce message, maintaining its logical sequence, register and communicative intent. 3.3 Use a range of techniques to track reproduced information. 3.4 Assess effectiveness of strategies used and consider improvements. |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
This course involves interpreting from a source language to a target language in complex monologue settings (one direction), ensuring that the communicative intent of the source is preserved. We will be learning a range of techniques to assist in this process and to deal with problems in delivery. Furthermore, we will be using note taking to assist with retention and recall when analysing and reproducing source language messages.
Teaching Schedule
| Advanced Diploma Skills | Advanced Diploma Context | |
| Semester 1 | Semester 1 | |
| Week 1 | The NAATI CI Test and RMIT Assessment | What is context? Why is it important? Research Skills |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Interpreting in Community Settings | Health – GPs, Community Centres |
| Week 3 | Seating Arrangements | Health – Hospitals (GS)? |
| Week 4 | Sight Translation | Health – Mental Health |
| Week 5 | Sight Translation | Welfare - Centrelink |
| Week 6 | Short and Long-Term Memory Improvement | Welfare - NDIS (GS) |
| Week 7 | Note-taking - Dialogue | Welfare - DHHS |
| Week 8 | Note-taking - Monologue | Education – Early Childcare |
| Sem Break | ||
| Week 9 | Chuchotage | Education – Primary and Secondary |
| Week 10 | Chuchotage | Immigration |
| Week 11 | Telephone Interpreting | Border Control and Customs |
| Week 12 | Be Your Own Boss – Running a business as an interpreter | VicRoads and Making Claims (insurance) |
| Week 13 | Professional Behaviour and Practical Advice | Police (GS)? |
| Week 14 | NAATI Exam Preparation and Technique | Business |
| Week 15 | Wrap Up | Wrap-Up |
| Advanced Diploma Interpreting Lectures | ||
| Semester 2 | ||
| Week 1 | NAATI Certification Tests and Formats | |
| Week 2 | Legal Interpreting - Intro to system and Courts | |
| Week 3 | Legal Interpreting - Oaths and Affirmation | |
| Week 4 | Legal Interpreting - Tribunals | |
| Week 5 | Legal interpreting - Court Visit | |
| Week 6 | Legal Interpreting - Mock Court - Cross Examination | |
| Week 7 | Legal Interpreting - Mock Court - Opening | |
| Week 8 | Legal Interpreting - Sentencing | |
| Week 9 | Legal Interpreting - Police interviews | |
| Week 10 | Legal Interpreting - Police transcriptions | |
| Week 11 | Legal interpreting - Police Interpreting | |
| Week 12 | Interpreting assessments | |
| Week 13 | Vicarious Trauma |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
The unit is supported online using CANVAS. CANVAS gives access to important announcements, staff contacts details, the teaching schedule, assessment timelines and a variety of important teaching and learning materials. Access to CANVAS can be found on RMIT website: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students
Overview of Assessment
Assessment will be ongoing during the semester and you will be asked a variety of assessment tasks and activities to assess your level of competence against key performance criteria.
These assessment tasks/activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Practical demonstrations
- Role plays
- Observation checklists
- Real or simulated interpreting assignments (live or recorded)
- Action Learning Tasks
Assessment Tasks
AT1 - Monologue Demonstration AT2 - Reflection Report
Assessment Matrix
Other Information
Adjustments to Assessments • If for any reason you have difficulties completing or submitting by the due date, you must contact your coordinator for alternative arrangement: If you need no more than a week, your coordinator can grant the extension. You must fill in an APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSESSABLE WORK (via http://mams.rmit.edu.au/seca86tti4g4z.pdf) and have it signed by your coordinator as proof of granted extension. The completed form must be submitted at least one working day before the official due date of the assessment. Missing any assessment tasks will result in a NOT YET COMPETENT grade for the cluster and is likely to render you ineligible to graduate. If you need more than a week, you have to apply for University Special Consideration. You must lodge an application online, preferably prior to, but no later than two working days after the official date of assessment. When you apply for Special Consideration for units delivered in a cluster, you must include all units in the cluster in your application. For information about Special Consideration and how to apply, see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/assessment/special-consideration For further information about adjustments to assessments, please see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/assessment/adjustments-to-assessment If your performance has been assessed as unsatisfactory, you can appeal the assessment decision according to the RMIT Assessment Policy and Procedures
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