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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
BASIC TRANSLATION ACL103 First Term (Fall) 3 + 0 4

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY1
SEMESTERFirst Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)Associate Professor Merve Sarıkaya Şen
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) gain the skills to translate from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English,
2) improve their linguistic knowledge of English and Turkish by comparing and contrasting their sentence stuctures
3) show their competency of using digital and hard copy dictionaries
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITIONBy introducing the concept of translation to the students, this course aims to raise their language awareness and help them translate from source language to target language by comparing and contrasting them and analyzing sentences from a contextual perspective. In order to help students critically evaluaate sentences with a lingusistic and contextual awareness, they are provided with basic terminolgy and cotemporary theories of translation studies.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Introduction
2nd Week Noun Clauses
3rd Week Noun Clauses
4th Week Adjective Clauses
5th Week Adjective Clauses
6th Week Adjective Clauses
7th Week Midterm
8th Week Adverb Clauses
9th Week Adverb Clauses
10th Week Adverb Clauses
11th Week Conjunctions
12th Week Conjunctions
13th Week Conjunctions
14th Week Revision and Wrap-up
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGDuff Alan. Translation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Mid-term130
Assignment230
Total(%)60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)40
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam122
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work14342
Preparation for Final exam11010
Course hours14342
Preparation for Midterm exam11010
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam122
Homework11010
Article Presentation122
Total Workload120
Total Workload / 304
ECTS Credits of the Course4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONEnglish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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