Course Title: Auslan Language Skills for Interpreters
Part A: Course Overview
Course ID: 032084
Program: C5116
Course Title: Auslan 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) |
LANG5310L |
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
This course aims to develop appropriate Auslan language skills in general to enable students to communicate effectively with clients, other professionals and colleagues. Specific emphases are place on:
• Receptive [sight] comprehension
• Accurate reproduction of English texts
• Appropriate use of idiom, collocation, grammar/syntax, register, lexis in context
• Appropriate sign production and articulation
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Successful completion of a bilingual intake test.
National Competency Codes and Titles
00274 |
Auslan Language Skills for Interpreters |
Learning Outcomes
1. Prepare effectively for interpreting dialogues, and employ effective research skills.
2. Practise Auslan language skills appropriate to domain in which dialogue takes place.
3. Practise features of Auslan appropriate for communicating in dialogues with clients in a face-to-face situation.
4. Practise receptive comprehension of aspects of Auslan outlined in elements 1, 2 &3 (above) including receptive comprehension appropriate to interpreting using telecommunication technologies.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment is based on successful completion of learning outcome tasks.