Translation - Projects - Sign Language

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• analyse a source document, identify potential textual and cognitive difficulties and assess the strategies and resources needed to reformulate it in line with communicative needs (1 – Translation); 
• summarise, rephrase, restructure, and shorten a message and adapt it to market needs rapidly and accurately in at least one target language, using written and/or spoken communication (2 – Translation); 
• implement the instructions, style guides, or conventions relevant to a particular translation (5 – Translation); 
• translate general and domain-specific material in one or several fields from one or several source languages into their target language(s), producing a ‘fit for purpose’ translation (6 – Translation); 
• translate different types of material on and for different kinds of media and target audiences, using appropriate tools and techniques (7 – Translation); 
• check, review, revise and evaluate their own work and that of others according to standard or work-specific quality objectives and assess the appropriateness of using tools for the work at hand (11 – Translation); 
• make effective use of search engines, corpus-based tools, text analysis tools, computer-assisted translation (CAT) and quality assurance (QA) tools where appropriate (16 – Technology); 
• plan and manage time (including complying with deadlines) (21 – Personal and Interpersonal); 
• work both autonomously and in virtual, multicultural and multilingual teams, using appropriate communication technologies (23 – Personal and Interpersonal); clarify the requirements, objectives and purposes of the
• client, recipients of the language service and other stakeholders and offer the appropriate services to meet those requirements (29 – Service Provision); 
• interact at all stages with the client (negotiate deadlines, rates/invoicing, working conditions, access to information, contracts, rights, responsibilities, language service specifications, tender specifications, offer feedback etc.) (30 – Service Provision). 

• negotiate the price, deadlines and terms and conditions for a translation project with a fictitious or real client; 
• draw up a quote and an invoice; 
• translate a specialised video within a given time frame, drawing on prior documentary and terminological research and using dedicated tools;  
• justify, where appropriate, translation choices based on the documentary sources consulted.