- Docente: Ira Torresi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: L-LIN/12
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: E-learning
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Intepreting (cod. 6057)
Learning outcomes
Students are able to apply the fundamentals acquired in previous learning activities to interpreting tasks between English and Italian.
Course contents
The course will focus on developing students' skills concerning the analysis, comprehension and reproduction of spoken speeches between English and Italian, and on their control of their delivery and of the communicative event.
Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting activities will take on and expand the foundations laid in the first year. Students are allowed to apply all the technologies they learnt about during Technology-Assisted Interpreting I and II.
Students will be mainly exposed to original speeches, some of them containing difficulties such as information redundancy, high speech rate, unusual accents and varieties of English, specific coherence and/or cohesion patterns, so as to develop specific strategies.
Readings/Bibliography
For suggested readings, which will not be part of the end-of-course exam, see the web guide for Teoria e Prassi dell’Interpretazione di Conferenza [https://www.unibo.it/it/studiare/insegnamenti-competenze-trasversali-moocs/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2025/523505].
Teaching methods
Practical exercise in class, monitored by the teacher, tutor and/or peers; self-training and self-monitoring.
As this course takes place in Labs with electrical equipment and PCs, please complete e-learning modules 1 and 2 of the mandatory training on safety in the workplace before the course starts: https://site.unibo.it/tutela-promozione-salute-sicurezza/it/corsi-di-formazione/formazione-obbligatoria-su-sicurezza-e-salute-per-svolgimento-di-tirocinio-tesi-laboratorio.
Assessment methods
Assessment will take into account workshop activity completion (in terms of timeliness, compliance with instructions, and quality of the final output).
Students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) or with disabilities that can affect their ability to attend courses are invited to contact the University service for students with disabilities and SLD at the earliest opportunity -- ideally before the start of the course: [https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students] . The University service will suggest possible adjustments to the course work and/or exam, which must then be submitted to the course leader so they can assess their feasibility, in line with the learning objectives of the course. Please note that adjustments to the assessment methods must be requested well before the final deadline set for activity completion.
Teaching tools
Online video materials; students' deliveries to be recorded with Audacity or other audio recorders.
Office hours
See the website of Ira Torresi