Undergraduate - UnitATS3052 - Chinese basic interpreting skills 2 (Incountry program)

This unit aims to train bilingually proficient students in the role, theory, ethics, and practice of inter-cultural verbal communication at elementary level.

On completion of this unit students will have further developed and consolidated:

1. Concepts of interpreting skills To fully understand the differences between verbal and non-verbal interpreting skills and concepts underlying principles and practice of interpreting and to recognize the specific requirements of different types of interpreting
2. Linguistic competence as well as verbal and non-verbal interpreting competence in both Chinese and English, to help them acquire fundamental skills and strategies essential to interpreting and to develop underlying techniques for summarizing, memory enhancement, note taking, public speaking skills, to help them become involved in various kinds of communicative activities which are closely in line with real-life situations and explore solutions to problems involved in decoding and encoding messages in the process of interpreting.
3. Multicultural understanding, as a prerequisite to interpreting and to communicate culturally specific information into an understandable format in the target language.
4. The foundation and confidence to participate in postgraduate level of interpreting and translation studies and/or other higher level of professional training programs.