General Translation II English_Portuguese

Code:

LA032

Acronym:

TGIP2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Language Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Applied Languages

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	28	Study plan	3	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Portuguese and English

Objectives

This curricular unit gives continuity to the work the students carried out in General Translation I. It aims at providing students with opportunities for the acquisition of similar competencies, although with a higher level of development, and offering them a working environment that simulates that of a professional translator; its nature is fundamentally practical and mainly aims at: 

1) enhancing students’ awareness of the many demands and difficulties translators come up against in their working sphere; 
2) consolidating students’ familiarisation with available translation tools;
3) consolidating students’ knowledge of basic translating techniques, giving them the opportunity to exercise these by discussing and translating a wide variety of text types; 
4) fostering an attentive and critical attitude towards the translation work, be it the product of individual or collaborative efforts;
5) fostering the production of texts in clear and accurate Portuguese.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester, students are expected to have consolidated their knowledge of basic translating techniques and to be able to translate non-specialised texts.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Good knowledge of working languages (Portuguese and English)

Program

2. Strategies used by the translator to solve linguistic and grammar difficulties. 

3. Working tools: using the Internet to select trustworthy and pertinent information; research activities in different domains;

4. Proofreading and revision work: the several stages of a revision process. Discussing linguistic issues key to the translator's work. Revision and post-editing exercises.

5. Introduction to the specialised translation: translation work (in groups) of texts from different fields, requiring some technical vocabulary, but with a low difficulty level. 

6. Specialised translation areas: discussion with guest lecturers.

Mandatory literature

Munday Jeremy; Introducing translation studies. ISBN: 0-415-22926-X

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methodology:

Practical exercises; presentation of a plan, at the beginning of the semester, with all the translation tasks to be performed by the students individually, in pairs and in groups. All the work submitted by students will be managed through Moodle.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Applied linguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	38,00
Estudo autónomo	83,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are expected to attend at least 75% of the classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation:

The evaluation will be based on the following elements:

 

Evaluation will be “distributed”; the option of a final exam will not be offered. 

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The assessment of worker students, board members of student associations and other students whose special status is laid down in FLUP's regulations) has to be agreed upon in writing within the first three weeks of the semester. The assessment components and their respective weighting have to be clearly specified.

Classification improvement

Students wishing to improve their grade will have to resit the final test.