Course Title: Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2020
Course Code: LANG5850C
Course Title: Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
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: 60
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None.
Course Description
This unit describes the skills required to conduct complex, creative, routine and non-routine spoken or signed communication in a LOTE, to meet the oral language and communication needs of interpreting in complex settings. It involves applying proficient oral communication skills to conduct negotiations, present information and participate in social and cultural activities.
This unit applies to those working as interpreters in a range of fields or contexts.
There is no direct parity with any formal language proficiency ratings or assessment framework, but this unit broadly relates to International Second Language Proficiency Rating (ISLPR) 4 and 4+.
This unit is delivered in a cluster as follows:
Whisper Cluster (Spoken languages)
- LANG5850C Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
- LANG5846C Use chuchotage (whispered simultaneous) to interpret (LOTE-English)
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
PSPTIS088 Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts |
Element: |
1. Participate in social and cultural activities |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Use LOTE language and language functions appropriate to varied social and cultural activities. 1.2 Adapt and modify communication strategies and language functions according to the situation and participant requirements. |
Element: |
2. Deliver presentations in LOTE |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Present information using sequencing and linguistic linking. 2.2 Deliver presentations in a style relevant to the purpose and objectives, audience characteristics, occasion and venue. 2.3 Support presentations with public speaking techniques. |
Element: |
3. Negotiate and persuade |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Use appropriate courtesy protocols to establish rapport, identify common ground and observe social, cultural and business conventions of the LOTE. 3.2 Use a range of LOTE language functions to provide explanations, information, advice and supporting details. 3.3 Use a range of language functions for negotiations. 3.4 Use intonation, voice tone and signalling expressions. 3.5 Use prosodic features, gestures and body language. 3.6 Exchange and agree to information about the subject of negotiation. |
Element: |
4. Provide summaries of complex oral or signed communication |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Make appropriate comments to check and clarify meaning. 4.2 Provide summaries of the purpose and meaning of the original utterance. 4.3 Use communication strategies and LOTE language functions that support immediate and unhindered communication. |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
This course involves using proficient and complex oral communication skills in LOTE to conduct negotiations, present information and participate in social and cultural activities. This course will be delivered through face-to-face combined lectures and workshops and by utilising the learning support material and resources here in Canvas. Furthermore, this course involves interpreting from a source language to a target language in basic simultaneous mode (one direction, at same time as source utterances are delivered), preserving key information and the gist of the source message. Simultaneous interpreting is typically applied in complex dialogue and monologue settings, in which the physical elements of the setting, or the number of parties involved, limit the interpreter from managing the discourse.
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 - Whispered Interpreting Demonstration
AT2 - Reflective 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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