Interpreting For Educational Purposes

Learning Outcomes :

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Discuss the concept of interpretation in educational context; Interpret lectures/speeches using consecutive and simultaneous techniques; Interpret any kind of speech in formal and informal educational contexts

Topics :

1. Linguistics and language teaching

2. Reflexive language in language teacher education

3. Working with language in language teacher education

4. Issues for language study in language teacher education

5. Interpreting lectures/speeches using consecutive and simultaneous techniques

6. Examining classroom discourse frames: An approach to raising language teachers’ awareness

7. Trainee generated language awareness

8. Developing language awareness and error detection

9. Maintaining language skills in pre-service training for foreign language teachers

10. The use of lesson transcripts for developing teachers’ classroom language

11. Mock Interpreting interviews