| TYPE OF COURSE UNIT | Elective Course |
| LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT | Bachelor's Degree |
| YEAR OF STUDY | - |
| SEMESTER | - |
| NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED | 4 |
| NAME OF LECTURER(S) | Instructor Elif Görkem Arslantürk Özaslan
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| LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT |
At the end of this course, the students;
1) will gain basic note-taking skills from talks.
2) will develop memory and retention skills.
3) will be able to obtain competence over basic listening comprehension and expressing in another language required for consecutive interpreting.
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| MODE OF DELIVERY | Face to face |
| PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE | No |
| RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT | |
| COURSE DEFINITION | This course aims to familiarize students with note-taking techniques which is supplementary before attending Consecutive Interpreting course the following semesters. Also, the aim of this course is to improve students? note-taking skills with intraclass practices. |
| COURSE CONTENTS | | WEEK | TOPICS |
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| 1st Week | General Introduction | | 2nd Week | Speech Analysis | | 3rd Week | Recognizing and Splitting Ideas | | 4th Week | The Beginning of Notes | | 5th Week | Rules of Abbreviation | | 6th Week | Vertically and Hierarchies of Values | | 7th Week | Symbols | | 8th Week | Midterm Exam | | 9th Week | Memory Prompts | | 10th Week | Uses of the Margin | | 11th Week | Note Taking Practice | | 12th Week | Note Taking Practice | | 13th Week | Note Taking Practice | | 14th Week | Final Remarks | | 15th Week | Final Exam |
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| RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING | Gillies, Andrew. Note-Taking for consecutive interpreting: a short course. Routledge, 2017.
Jones, Roderick. Conference interpreting explained. Routledge, 2014.
Seymour, Richard K., and Jingzhi Liu. Translation and interpreting: bridging East and West: selected conference papers. College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii, 1994. |
| PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS | Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Case Study,Problem Solving,Practice |
| ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA | | | Quantity | Percentage(%) |
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| Mid-term | 1 | 40 | | Total(%) | | 40 | | Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) | | 40 | | Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) | | 60 | | Total(%) | | 100 |
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| ECTS WORKLOAD |
| Activities |
Number |
Hours |
Workload |
| Midterm exam | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Preparation for Quiz | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Individual or group work | 12 | 2 | 24 | | Preparation for Final exam | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Course hours | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Preparation for Midterm exam | 1 | 4 | 4 | | Laboratory (including preparation) | 3 | 2 | 6 | | Final exam | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Homework | 8 | 3 | 24 | | Total Workload | | | 125 |
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| Total Workload / 30 | | | 4,16 |
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| ECTS Credits of the Course | | | 4 |
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| LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION | English |
| WORK PLACEMENT(S) | No |
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