Language and Translation Practice German-Dutch I

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023277ANR 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

'Taal- en vertaalpraktijk Duits-Nederlands I' opnemen houdt in dat je gelijktijdig ‘Deutsche Sprache I’’ volgt of reeds geslaagd bent voor 'Deutsche Sprache I’’. Zit je in een verkort traject dan kan je dit vak gewoon opnemen.

Taught in

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Geert Crauwels (course titular)
Arvi Sepp

Activities and contact hours

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

Course Content

This course offers the students a practice-oriented and systematic approach of the language awareness in German compared to Dutch. Apart from a self-study package ('home package'), the course consists of two main parts:

1) A (technical) translatory and comparative component of the contrastive German-Dutch linguistics;

2) A lexical and idiomatic component of German compared with Dutch in several selected topical areas.

In the section that deals with the translatory and comparative component, the students will have to carry out translation assignments (specific translation exercises as well as text translation) that offer a range of specific translatory challenges and common difficulties with a contrastive focus. Diverse contrastive German-Dutch language description will be elaborated upon (e.g. differences in gender of nouns, expressing modality in German, use of prepositions, use of German 'es' and the translation of Dutch 'er' and 'het' into German).

In this section, the exercises simultanuously build up and extend the German vocabulary in an integrated way. In this process, special attention will be paid to so-called 'false friends'.

The second part of this course focuses on the development of the lexical and idiomatic component of the German language in contrast to Dutch. The students will deal with a series of exercises and various texts; the exercises will focus on selected thematic areas, the use of functional words and word pairs.

Students also carry out competence-based oral exercises (including paraphrasing, oral summarising) to prepare and support written translation activities. These exercises are offered (partly) via a blended learning trajectory.

The self-study package, finally, helps students to acquire a basic vocabulary autonomously and enables them to extend their practical knowledge of lexical and idiomatic differences between German and Dutch.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Door de docenten geselecteerde teksten en ter beschikking gestelde oefeningen, Geert Crauwels
Handbook (Required) : Thematische Woordenschat. Duits, Heike Krüger-Beer, Intertaal, 9789460304170, 2017
Handbook (Required) : Deutsche Grammatik, Eine kontrastiv deusch-niederländische Beschreibung für den Fremdspracherwerb., P. ten Cate - Lodder - Kootte, Coutinho, 9789062834358, 2004

Additional info

- Attendance is required and will be checked regularly. If a student is absent without good reason for several lectures in a row, he or she may be excluded from taking the exam as a consequence.

- An up-to-date schedule of teaching activities with the corresponding assignments and (blended) exercises is made available in Canvas. Please make sure to check Canvas at least once a week for this course;

- Any further relevant information can be found in Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

Eindcompetenties

1) The student has demonstrably extended and refined his or her knowledge of the German vocabulary and idiom in the aforementioned subject areas. He or she is, at the end of this course, able to translate single sentences or text units of a more general nature (level B1-B2 of the CEFR) from German into Dutch and vice versa, thereby using this newly acquired vocabulary. The student can name and motivate his/her translation choices and strategies in line with the knowledge acquired in 'Introduction to Translation'. [Demonstrating and applying knowledge]

2) The student is able to (analytically) identify the typical challenges and difficulties that may arise when translating single sentences or text fragments of a more general nature and of a lower degree of complexity (level B1-B2 of the CEFR) into the required target language, i.e. either German or Dutch. [Demonstrating knowledge and understanding]

3) Moreover, the student also shows, in this process of the translation of single sentences or text units, that he or she is able to find adequate solutions to the aforementioned contrastive translatory problems. The student can name and motivate his/her translation choices and strategies in line with the knowledge acquired in 'Introduction to Translation'. In doing this, he or she applies the knowledge acquired in the seminar and through self-tuition (home package). Mutatis mutandis, the same applies to the competence-based oral exercises (including summarising and paraphrasing) [Applying knowledge and understanding]

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 75% of the final mark.
Other determines 25% of the final mark.

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

Schriftelijk examen with a relative weight of 25 which comprises 75% of the final mark. This is a mid-term test.

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

Permanente Evaluatie with a relative weight of 75 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

First examination session: 75% written examination + 25% continuous assessment (oral and competence-based exercises)

Second examination session: 75% written examination + 25% continuous assessment (oral and competence-based exercises)

Note on the second exam session: The student has to retake both the written exam and the assignments 'permanent evaluation' (continuous assessment). The breakdown of marks remains the same. No transfer of partial exemptions from the first exam session is possible.

For each assessment component, the course instructor(s) 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