Language and translation practice English-Dutch III

3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1021051ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Je hebt ‘Taal- en vertaalpraktijk Engels-Nederlands II’ gevolgd, alvorens dit vak op te nemen. Dit vak opnemen houdt in dat je gelijktijdig ‘.English: Language & Culture’ volgt of reeds geslaagd bent voor 'English: Language & Culture’. Zit je in een verkort traject dan kan je dit vak gewoon opnemen.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Julie Deconinck (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
39 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course constitutes the final building block of your English-Dutch translation trajectory in the Bachelor programme. In these practical seminars, we will continue to focus on translation as a goal-oriented activity, since we always translate "for someone" and "with a certain goal in mind" (Vanderbauwhede & Henn, 2019, p.330). A successful translation mediates the linguistic and cultural distance between source audience/source context on the one hand and target audience/target context on the other, and this process can in turn be informed by the desired communicative goal. In addition to translating and revising texts, we will also spend some time on text adaptation, required when the genre, context, target audience and/or communicative purpose of the target text differs from that of the source text. Most of the assignments will involve translation from English into Dutch, but a few will target inverse translation (NL > E).

We will frequently focus on the translation of so-called 'cultural texts', meaning that you should be able to practically apply some of the institutional, historical, and cultural knowledge gained in English: Language and Culture. You will also be able to sample three domains in translation that will be foregrounded in the master's in translation, namely literary, technical-scientific and economic translation.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : zie Canvas

Additional info

Course materials (digital) will be shared via the learning platform in the course of the semester. You will have to carry out translation, adaptation, revision and/or post-editing assignments at home or during class, alone or in pairs/groups. You will receive feedback and/ or a mark on a selection of these assignments.

Learning Outcomes

Eindcompetenties

Upon successful completion of the course, students can

translate a range of authentic source texts in English into correct and idiomatic Dutch using relevant translation tools, and vice versa (proficiency level English: C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages);
translate and adapt a source text while attending to genre, context, target audience and communicative purpose;
reflect on and motivate the choices made during the translation process;
critically assess, revise and/or post-edit a (machine) translation.

Doelstellingen

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Written Exam with a relative weight of 60 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Other Exam with a relative weight of 40 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Note: Students must complete a minimum of 6 assignments in the course of the semester to achieve the continuous assessment requirement in the first session.

Additional info regarding evaluation

1st exam session

40% continuous assessment

60% written exam

2nd exam session

40% assignment

60% written exam

If the student obtains a pass mark for  the continuous assessment in the first exam session but fails the course as a whole, the mark for continuous assessment will be transferred to the second session.

For each assessment component, the course instructors will explicitly indicate the permissibility of using generative AI or MT tools, specifying whether its usage is prohibited, limited to certain extents, or fully permitted. Non-compliance with these specifications will be considered academic fraud and penalized accordingly.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context