Unit One Teacher: Feng Xu, Ding Xiaohuan Attendants: Class 5/8 Grade 4 (02) Time: 05-9-6/7 Place: Language Laboratory 9-2 Theme: Course description Focus: Sight interpretation Purpose: enable students to know about sight interpretation and simultaneous interpretation as well as the arrangement of this semester Teaching Process: 1. Course Description 2. Introduction of Simultaneous Interpretation 3. Sight Interpretation 4. Sight Interpretation Exercise 1. Course Description (A combination of sight interpretation and consecutive interpretation / interpreting tactics-based course) A. Teaching arrangement Four weeks as a rotation, two weeks for sight interpretation exercises and two weeks for consecutive interpretation exercises Requirement Preview + review + group work Teaching procedure Theory + skill introduction & Practice Textbook & References 《英汉同声传译》 张维为著，中国对外翻译出版公司 《高级口译教程》 梅德明编著，上海外语教育出版社 《汉译英口译教程》 吴冰编著，外语教学与研究出版社 《实用英语口译教程》，冯建忠，译林出版社， 2002年 CCTV国际频道访谈、主题讨论节目 CNN新闻等。 Performance assessment Final exam: 50% Regular performance: 50% 2. Introduction of Simultaneous Interpretation Simultaneous interpretation involves a quite complicated language processing and is “often practiced in bilingual or multilingual conferences” (Liu Minhua, 2001:1). In simultaneous interpreting, “the interpreter listens to the beginning of the speaker’s comments then begins interpreting while the speech continues, carrying on throughout the speech, to finish almost at the same time as the original. The interpreter is thus speaking simultaneously to the original, hence again the name.”(Jones, 1997:6) Features: simultaneity, high efficiency in communication, demanding requirements for interpreters, incurable imperfection Types: whispering SI and conference SI Prerequisite for simultaneous interpreters: Aptitude / Linguistic proficiency / Sense of responsibility / Encyclopedic knowledge / Interpretation tactics 3. Sight Interpretation A prelude training for simultaneous interpretation Objectives for the course learning: ◆ get to know the application of sight interpretation in simultaneous interpretation; ◆ have full exercise of sight interpretation in class and learn how to do exercise after class; ◆ get familiar with the tactics and skills in sight interpretation; ◆ be an active listener who can seize the main idea of the speeches; ◆ have a concept of “audience-oriented”; ◆ break the fetter of words and sentences, know that “words ≠ information”. 4. Sight Interpretation Exercise (Script) Globalization, an opportunity or a threat? Ko?chiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO Ladies and Gentlemen: Progress in communication and transport technology during the 20th century has allowed us to overcome geographical boundaries and revolutionize our way of living. The world is now linked to such an extent that a local happening cannot take place without impacting on the international community and vice versa. Globalization is not just about increasing worldwide circulation of information and ideas. Economically speaking, it entails an increase in capital flow, transnational investment and international trade, thereby integrating all countries into a single giant world market. In terms of politics, the social, economic or environmental orientation of states is being increasingly determined by regional and international structures. In terms of Culture, is Globalization an opportunity or a threat? Globalization itself is neither positive nor negative: it may be either of them depending on our viewpoint. Nonetheless, Culture in general, and cultural diversity in particular, is facing 2 challenges: Globalization, in its powerful extension of market principles, by highlighting the culture of economically powerful nations, has created new forms of inequality, thereby fostering cultural conflict rather than cultural pluralism. States are increasingly unable to handle on their own cross-border flow of ideas, images and resources that affect cultural development. Note: Since this is the first sight interpretation for students, so feedback means a lot in teaching process. Students are required to have group discussions after class and submit a course review in the next week.