Module: Chinese Translation Practice

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Chinese Translation Practice
Module Code	ZH208 (ITS) / CHN1003 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Mengdi Wang
Module Teachers	Lijie Shao, Qi Zhang
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

The module aims to introduce the students to a range of types of translation and provide them a basic understanding of general translation practice.

Learning Outcomes

1. Establish a basic understanding of linguistic differences between Chinese and English as well as a general command of translation techniques from Chinese into English.
2. Translate short texts of varied specialised discourse, such as literature, tourism, business, popular science and journalism, from Chinese into English.
3. Use appropriate background documentation relevant to the task of translation (e.g. dictionaries and online machine translation tools).
4. Produce grammatically correct, natural English texts.
5. Identify and explain translation challenges with reference to concepts such as register, text type and collocation.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	20	On site synchronous sessions
Directed learning	80	-Review of lecture/tutorial topics -Completion of weekly after-class exercises on time -Interaction with formative feedback, in class or online -Individual consultation with the lecturer
Assignment Completion	25	-Interaction with learning resources and feedback on individual CA assignments -CA preparation and completion
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Lectures, tutorials and directed learning
The module will bring specialised discourse/texts of various types, such as general life, business, tourism, science/technology, media and journalism, that are selected from Chinese language module textbooks, translation practice materials, print and online media source. Lectures and tutorials on translation practice: A variety of texts will be examined, analysed, discussed and translated in either group or individual settings led by the lecturer, so are the specific translation techniques from Chinese into English. Directed learning: Weekly after-class exercises will be given followed by formative feedback.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	CA 1 Translation assignment (genre Tourism)	25%	Week 4
Assignment	CA 2 Translation assignment (genre Business)	30%	Week 7
Assignment	CA 3 Translation assignment (genre Technology)	30%	Week 10
Participation	Participation & Engagement including weekly after-class exercises	15%	Every Week

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Mona Baker: 2011, In Other words: a Coursebook in Translation, 2nd, Routledge, New York,
Morry Sofer: 2002, Translator Self-Training Chinese: Practical Course in Technical Translation, Schreiber Publishing, Rockville, Maryland,
2010: Oxford Chinese Dictionary, OUP Oxford, Oxford, 2064,

Other Resources

0, Online translation tool, 0, Google Translate, 0, Online translation tool, 0, Tencent Translator,