Course Title: Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2023

Course Code: LANG5850C

Course Title: Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.  

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Please check your Canvas course shell closer to when the course starts to see if this course requires mandatory in-person attendance. The delivery method of the course might have to change quickly in response to changes in the local state/national directive regarding in-person course attendance.  

 

School: 535T Social Care and Health

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   Ya-Ping Kuo Ya-Ping.kuo@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:

Proficiency Cluster (Spoken languages)

  • LANG5849C Demonstrate complex English proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
  • LANG5850C Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts


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


Please refer to the Canvas - Syllabus for the weekly schedule. All classes will be delivered face to face on campus. 


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 - LOTE Proficiency Demonstration – Role Play

This assessment task will enable you to demonstrate their knowledge and skills to:

·       use LOTE language and language functions appropriate to varied social and cultural activities (for this task a meeting to enquire about how to apply for a stall at a LOTE Festival)

·       adapt and modify communication strategies and language functions according to the situation and participant requirements

·       use appropriate courtesy protocols to establish rapport, identify common ground and observe social, cultural and business conventions of LOTE

·       use a range of LOTE language functions to provide explanations, information, advice and supporting details

·       use a range of language functions for negotiations

·       use intonation, voice tone and signalling expressions effectively

·       use prosodic features, gestures and body language effectively

·       exchange and agree to information about the subject of negotiation

·       provide summaries of complex oral communication

·       make appropriate comments to check and clarify meaning

·       provide summaries of the purpose and meaning of the original utterance

·       use communication strategies and LOTE language functions that support immediate and unhindered communication.

You are to participate in role play between an event coordinator at LOTE Culture Promotion Society and a LOTE business owner, where their LOTE proficiency will be assessed playing the role of either participant.

The brief is based on scenario about a conversation between an event coordinator at LOTE Culture Promotion Society and a LOTE business owner who is planning to set up a stall at the LOTE Festival. Link is in Canvas.

The dialogue should be maintained for approximately ten minutes. Your teacher will allocate roles and a time for assessment.

 

AT2 - LOTE Proficiency Presentation

This practical assessment task is the second of three (3) tasks you must complete satisfactorily to be deemed competent for this unit.

This assessment task will enable you to demonstrate their knowledge and skills to:

·       use LOTE language and language functions appropriate to varied social and cultural activities.

·       adapt and modify communication strategies and language functions according to the situation and participant requirements.

·       present information in LOTE in a sequenced manner

·       link information logically

·       deliver the presentation in a style suitable for the objectives, audience, occasion and venue nominated

·       support the presentation through effective public speaking techniques

·       use appropriate courtesy protocols to establish rapport, identify common ground and observe social, cultural and business conventions of LOTE

·       use a range of LOTE language functions to provide explanations, information, advice and supporting details

·       use intonation, voice tone and signalling expressions effectively

·       use prosodic features, gestures and body language effectively

·       make appropriate comments to check and clarify meaning

·       provide summaries of the purpose and meaning of the original utterance

·       use communication strategies and LOTE language functions that support immediate and unhindered communication.

You are required to deliver a presentation about a topic, based on the scenario presented in Appendix 1 (link in Canvas). In this scenario, you are a student who is about to begin a research project and is participating in a research symposium. At this symposium you are to present your topic. You are to select a topic from the list provided in Appendix 1 (link in Canvas) and develop content to address the requirements in brief. The presentation is to run for approximately 10 minutes. If you would rather present on a topic they are familiar with, contact the teacher. Your topic selection requires teacher pre-approval.

Directly after the presentation, you will be questioned by their teacher and classmates about potential issues related to their topic and areas that need further clarification for a further 10 minutes (approximately). During this time, you must also address conflict arising from opposing views and persuade you audience of the value of your views.

 

AT3 - LOTE Proficiency Knowledge Questions

The questions will be discussed during class time, but you may need to complete them in your own time.

Read through each question in the Student Answer Sheet and clarify any points with their teacher.

All three (3) questions must be answered correctly for you to be assessed as satisfactory for this assessment task. The instruction is provided in each question.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Assessment Matrix

 

 

 

 
           

Element 

        

Performance criteria 

        

 

        

 

        

 
       

 

    

 

    

Assessment 

Task 1: LOTE proficiency demonstration (role play) 

    

Assessment 

Task 2: LOTE proficiency presentation 

    

Assessment Task 3:  LOTE proficiency knowledge questions 
       

 

1. Participate in social and cultural activities 

    

1.1 Use LOTE language and language functions appropriate to varied social and cultural activities. 

    

2, 3 

    

2 

    

1 
   

1.2 Adapt and modify communication strategies and language functions according to the situation and participant requirements. 

    

3, 5, 7 

    

2, 6 

    

 
       

2. Deliver presentations in LOTE 

    

2.1 Present information using sequencing and linguistic linking. 

    

7 

    

3, 6 

    

 
   

2.2 Deliver presentations in a style relevant to the purpose and objectives, audience characteristics, occasion and venue. 

    

 

    

5, 6 

    

 
   

2.3 Support presentations with public speaking techniques. 

    

 

    

5 

    

 
       

3. Negotiate and persuade  

 

    

3.1 Use appropriate courtesy protocols to establish rapport, identify common ground and observe social, cultural and business conventions of LOTE. 

    

1 

    

1 

    

3 
   

3.2 Use a range of LOTE language functions to provide explanations, information, advice and supporting details. 

    

3, 5, 7 

    

2, 4, 6 

    

 
   

3.3 Use a range of language functions for negotiations 

    

3, 5, 7, 8, 9 

    

2  

    

 
   

3.4 Use intonation, voice tone and signalling expressions effectively. 

    

5, 7 

    

5, 6 

    

 
   

3.5 Use prosodic features, gestures and body language effectively. 

    

5, 6, 7 

    

5, 6 

    

 
   

3.6 Exchange and agree to information about the subject of negotiation. 

    

8, 9 

    

1, 2, 7 

    

 
       

4. Provide summaries of complex oral or signed communication 

    

4.1 Make appropriate comments to check and clarify meaning. 

    

4, 7 

    

1, 2, 6, 7 

    

 
   

4.2 Provide summaries of the purpose and meaning of the original utterance. 

    

4, 9 

    

3, 7 

    

 
   

4.3 Use communication strategies and LOTE language functions that support immediate and unhindered communication. 

    

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 

    

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 

    

 

 

 
           

Performance Evidence   

       

 

 

    

Assessment 

Task 1: LOTE proficiency demonstration (role play) 

    

Assessment 

Task 2: LOTE proficiency presentation 

    

Assessment Task 3:  LOTE proficiency knowledge questions 
       

using extended communication skills including verbal skills and non-verbal skills 

    

1-9, listed specifically as criterion 7  

    

1-7, listed specifically as criterion 6 

    

 
       

using repetition, clarification and paraphrasing techniques to clarify requirements, address problems and conflict, and reassure others 

    

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 

    

1, 2, 6, 7 

    

 

 

 
           

Knowledge Evidence   

       

 

 

    

Assessment 

Task 1: LOTE proficiency demonstration (role play) 

    

Assessment 

Task 2: LOTE proficiency presentation 

    

Assessment Task 3:  LOTE proficiency knowledge questions 
       

technical LOTE vocabulary required to support specific context of communication  

    

2 

    

4 

    

Q1 
       

standard procedures specific to communication in a particular context 

    

1 

    

1-6 

    

Q2 
       

applications of LOTE language social, business and cultural, including:  

  • consistent use of forms of address 

    

1 

    

 

    

Q3 
       

  • customs, protocols and taboos 

    

1 

    

1, 5 

    

Q3 
       

  • dialect, idiom, colloquialisms and language conventions 

    

2 

    

4 

    

Q3 

 

 

 

 

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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