Sight translation Russian > French [ LINTP2260 ]

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• Proficiency in Language A (mother tongue or acquired target language: French);

Good comprehension (level C2) of Language C (Russian)

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The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Oral exam: sight translation of a general text (politics, society) of 700 ' 800 words.
Assessment criteria: 1) comprehension speed and quality (non-senses, faux senses, contresenses; extraction of relevant information; argumentative moves); 2) production fluency (pauses, false starts, self-correction) and quality of the target discourse and language (interferences, pragmatic adequacy, lexical variety, syntactic correctness).



 

In-class course unit.
Exercises aiming at developing the following skills:
- simultaneous processing of visual and auditive information;
- interlinguistic and intermodal (written-to-oral) transfer.
To improve the comprehension speed and quality, students are required to compile a collection of articles on relevant subjects (politics, society) in the source language, to present weekly 1 or 2 articles in the target language and discuss the comprehension and transfer problems.
 

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Lee, Jieun (2012). What skills do students need to learn in sight translation training? Meta 57(3): 694-714.

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