70180 - Conference Interpreting from Spanish into Italian

Learning outcomes

The student knows and is able to use basic  conference interpreting techniques (consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation) from Spanish into Italian in a wide range of professional settings.

Course contents

The course will be imparted by two trainers: prof. Mariachiara Russo (consecutive interpretation) and prof. Claudio Tugnoli (simultaneous interpretation).

Consecutive interpreting sessions will be held in videoconference (Virtual Classes) with the interpreters of the DG Interpretation of the European Commission and of the European Parliament.

The overall objective of the course is strengthening students' expressive and communicative skills. In the use of Spanish training material, special attention will be devoted to morphological, syntactical, lexical, idiomatic and pragmatic features of the language, text cohesion and coherence, neologisms, acronyms, terminology and phraseology.

Students will have to keep abreast of the following topics: economy, politics, international organizations, socio-cultural current affairs, technological and scientific developments.

The first year program will be reviewed with the aim of resolving students' linguistic and technical  shortcomings by devising modes of remedial and targeted training also supported by the interpreting tutor. 

In particular:

Consecutive interpretation- Analytical, listening, focussing, memorising and expressive skills for a high quality consecutive performance will be enhanced through increasingly difficult training material.

 

Simultaneous interpretation- Analytical, comprehension and expressive skills for a high quality simultaneous performance will be enhanced through increasingly difficult training material.

Readings/Bibliography

Texts:

Falbo Caterina, Russo Mariachiara e Straniero Sergio, Francesco (a cura di) (1999) L'interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva. Problemi teorici e metodologie didattiche , Milano, Hoepli.

Russo, M. (2005) L'interpretazione consecutiva dallo spagnolo in italiano. Conoscere altri sistemi per sviluppare il proprio, Bologna, Gedit.

Russo, M. (2012) Interpretare lo spagnolo. L'effetto di dissimmetrie morfosintattiche nella simultanea, Bologna: Clueb.

Further readings:

Abuín González, M. (2007) El proceso de interpretación consecutiva. Un estudio del binomio problema/estrategia , Granada, Comares.

Baigorri-Jalón, Jesús (2000) La interpretación de conferencias: el nacimiento de una profesión . De París a Nuremberg, Granada, Comares.

Bersani Berselli, Mack,Gabriele e Zorzi, Daniela (a cura di) (2004), Linguistica e interpretazione, CLUEB, Biblioteca della SSLMIT, Forlì.

Blasco Mayor, M.J. (2007) La comprensión oral en el desarrollo de la pericia de la interpretación de conferencias, Granada, Comares.

Collados Aís, Ángela, Fernandez Sánchez Ma Manuela y Gile, Daniel (eds.) (2003) La evaluación de la calidad en interpretación: investigación , Granada, Editorial Comares.

Collados Aís, Ángela (1998) La evaluación de la calidad en interpetación simultánea. La importancia de la comunicación no verbal , Granada, Editorial Comares.

Falbo, C. (1999) “Morfosintassi e riformulazione” in Interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva, a cura di Falbo, Russo e Straniero Sergio, Milano: Hoepli, pp. 175-188.

Kelly, Dorothy, Martin, Anne, Nobs, Marie-Louise, Sánchez, Dolores y Way, Catherine (eds.) (2003) La direccionalidad en traducción e interpretación.Perspectivas téoricas, profesionales y didácticas . Granada, Editorial Atrio. 

Iglesias Fernández, E. (2007) La didáctica de la interpretación de conferencias: teoría y práctica , Granada, Comares.

Morelli, M. (2010)  La interpretación español-italiano : planos de ambigüedad y estrategias, Granada, Comares.

Teaching methods

Interpreting classes will include: exercises aimed at strengthening listening, comprehension, memorising and production abilities in Italian and Spanish; exercises of oral presentation of impromptu and/or prepared speeches in Italian and Spanish; exercises of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation from increasingly difficult speeches taken from a variety of video and audio sources.

During classes students' performances will be audio and videorecorded for self-, peer- and teacher's evaluation purposes.

Assessment methods

At the end of the year there will be an exam to verify the acquistion of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of original speeches from Spanish into Italian. The speech to be interpreted simultaneously will last aprox. 10 minutes and that for consecutive aprox. 7 minutes. Exam topics will regard  socio-cultural current affairs, politics, economy and science. 

Teaching tools

Interpreting classroom equipped with booths, computer, videoprojector and videocamara. Audio, audio-video and printed material will be used in class. Spanish speaking guest speakers will be invited.

Links to further information

http://moodle.sslmit.unibo.it/login/index.php

Office hours

See the website of Mariachiara Russo

See the website of Claudio Tugnoli