University of Languages and International Studies

Faculty of English Language Teacher Education

DIVISION OF TRANSLATIONAND INTERPRETING

Translation 2
Semester 6

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Course information

Programme: Bachelor in English Linguistics

Course title: Translation 2 (Advanced)

Number of Credits: 3

Course code: ENG3006

Type of course Compulsory

Semester: 6

Number of contact 3 periods (of 50 minutes each / week)

hours:

Preceding course(s): Translation 1 (Basic)

Parallel course(s): Translation for Specific Purposes

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Lecturer information
 Teaching team
1) Full name: Nguyễn Thành Vân (course designer)
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts.
- Email: ntvan.th@gmail.com
2) Full name: Nguyễn Việt Kỳ
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts.
- Email: vietky72@yahoo.com
3) Full name: Nguyễn Thị Hải Hà
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts.
- Email: nthihaiha@yahoo.com
4) Full name: Tống Thị Mỹ Liên
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts.
- Email: tongthimylien85@yahoo.com
5) Full name Họ và tên: Vũ Thị Kim Liên
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
- Email: kimlien2491@gmail.com
6) Full name: Vương Thu Hằng
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
- Email: hang.vuong91@yahoo.com
7) Full name: Trần Thị Minh
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts
- Email: minhtran6991@gmail.com
8) Full name: Triệu Thu Hằng
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts
- Email: trieuthuhang91@gmail.com
9) Full name: Nguyễn Thị Diệu Thúy
- Title: Lecturer Academic degree: Master of Arts.
- Email: shamrock2811@gmail.com

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Summary of Course Contents
The course provides students with both extensive and intensive knowledge and skills
through fifteen units corresponding to 15 issues frequently encountered in the process
of doing professional translation. Each unit begins with a theoretical lead-in which is
then accompanied by a variety of typical examples for illustration. The ensuing tasks
designed for English-Vietnamese-English translation are intended to help students
reinforce the theoretical issues they have been introduced to. The selected texts cover a
wide range of topics that are expected to familiarize students with real-life translation
assignments.

Course objectives

Translation 2 aims to provide students with fairly profound knowledge and skills
required in doing professional translation. Students are given opportunities to practice
dealing with frequently encountered issues in real life translation assignments, through
which they develop such skills as analyzing the text before translating, identifying the
most equivalent sentence structure, diversifying structures and expressions, coining
new words based on certain word-formation rules, assessing translation quality, etc.
This type of knowledge and skills will help students to respond effectively to multiple
scenarios and situations in the job market. The skills are arranged in ascending order
of difficulty while the units increase in terms of level of equivalence, from word level
all the way to sentence, paragraph and passage level. Translation 2 consists of a wide
range of tasks and exercises, designed to develop students’ high-order thinking skills
(HOTS) such as the ability to analyze, assess, synthesize and create (as defined in
Bloom taxonomy).

Upon the completion of the course, students are expected to achieve the following
learning outcomes:
1. In terms of knowledge
- Develop wide background knowledge across various topics (culture, environment,
education, health, history, economy, international relations, political systems, and so
on)
- Acquire a firm understanding of the terminology of the topics in question
- Have more and better knowledge of linguistic and translation theory issues like
textual equivalence, sentence-level equivalence, inversion, cleft sentence, conditionals,
among others.
2. In terms of skills
- Translate correctly and without loss of meaning relatively complex words, phrases,
sentences and paragraphs from the source language to the target language

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- Edit source texts before translating. This means students learn how to deal with
sentences that are run-on, disproportionate (either too short or too long), complex and
ambiguous and polysemic, etc.
- Be able to assess the level of accuracy of the target texts vis-à-vis the source texts;
assess the level of accuracy of their own work and that of their classmates.
- Translate at a speed of 85-100 words within a space of 10 minutes various types of
language, be it press, report or officialese.
3. In terms of attitude
- Develop a habit of proactivity and self-motivation in learning

- Develop critical thinking

- Develop a sense of professionalism in doing translation.

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Course Assessment

Form of Weighti
Descriptions Objectives
Assessment ng

Regular/ ← 2 In each session, • To check students proactivity and the ability to take
formative 0% initiative as well as their fulfillment of prescribed
assessment - Students take turn to present their translation, homework
which they prepare before class, and explain • To provide students with references and
the terminology contained therein. recommended readings which can help develop their
background knowledge of the topics/issues in the
- Students take part in class activities and coursebook.
respond to teacher’s questions related to the
topics or issues of the lesson.

Mid-term 20% The 70-minute mid-term test consists of two parts: • Help students revise and consolidate the knowledge
test English-Vietnamese translation and Vietnamese- and skills hitherto acquired.
English translation. It only tests the knowledge and • Prepare students for the final test by familiarizing
skills that students already learn in previous weeks. them with its format.

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 Form of Weighti
Descriptions Objectives
Assessment ng

Final exam ← 6 In its typical format, the final test is 90 minutes long • Test students’ ability to express ideas in English and
0% and consists of tasks that require students to translate Vietnamese and advanced translation skills
sentences and paragraphs into both English and
Vietnamese bearing in mind the knowledge and
skills they acquire throughout the entire course.

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