Course Title: Sight Translate
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5423 Diploma of Interpreting (Auslan)
Course Title: Sight Translate
Portfolio: Vocational Education
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.Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
LANG5880C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
535T Social Care and Health |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Term1 2023, Term2 2023 |
Course Contact: Ya-Ping Kuo
Course Contact Phone: +(61 3) 9925 3771
Course Contact Email: ya-ping.kuo@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to produce a sight translation of a written source text in a different spoken or signed target language with a high degree of accuracy. It includes verbal or signed reproduction in a target language of a written source text in its entirety. It includes a high level of comprehension of written language and its structure, the ability to work between two languages in spoken or signed and written form, and the ability to reflect the register of the written source text in the target language.
This unit applies to interpreters who are required to sight translate texts that may be supplied during an interpreting assignment.
This unit is delivered in a cluster as follows:
Terminology cluster: • LANG5880C Sight translate • LANG5874C Use routine health terminology in two languages • LANG5877C Use routine education terminology in two languages
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
PSPTIS135 Sight Translate |
Elements: |
1. Analyse text. 2. Translate source text into target language. 3. Evaluate sight translation. |
Learning Outcomes
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