Module: Chinese Scientific/Technical Translation

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Chinese Scientific/Technical Translation
Module Code	ZH402 (ITS) / CHN1013 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Qi Zhang
Module Teachers	-
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 purpose of this module is to further develop students’ semi-professional translation skills. Students will have the advanced translation skills for various purposes and will be able to make effective use of technical terminology resources and comparable text resources.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the source language expression and locate the equivalent target language to translate semi-specialised texts.
2. Choose a translation strategy that is appropriate to the purpose of the text, the translation brief, or other contextual factors in a translation assignment.
3. Employ terminological and domain knowledge that is suitable for use in semi-specialised scientific and technical texts and in a particular translation assignments.
4. Produce translations suitable for semi-specialised, scientific or technique texts, considering text cohesion and text presentation (typing, spelling, grammar, etc.).
5. Study the quality and strategies employed in existing Chinese-English translations.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	20	Synchronous timetabled sessions
Independent Study	80	Synchronous and asynchronous group work/study for class preparation, reviewing content delivered synchronously (slides, translation examples, etc.), directed learning (e.g. post-editing, translation practice and directed discussions).
Assignment Completion	25	Critique of post-editing (5 hours); Translation 1 (5 hours); Translation 2 (5 hours); Reflective log (10 hours).
Total Workload: 125

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Content
• Practical translation examples • Substitutions, omissions and additions in translation • Translation theory and practice • The importance of background research • Translation quality assessment in practice • Translating proper nouns appropriately • Domain-specific knowledge (for example, information technology, space technology, medical devices, patent translation, etc.)

Learning Activities
• Completing short quizzes, cloze or glossary-matching exercises • Building and maintaining a bilingual glossary of specialised language • Comparing published target texts with published source texts, or comparing different machine translation outputs • Producing translations in line with specific translation beliefs • Maintaining a reflective log to consider translation choices made and translation competences encountered in the module

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Five post-editings (2 points each)	10%	n/a
Assignment	Critique of post-editing	10%	n/a
Assignment	Translation 1 (300 words)	20%	n/a
Assignment	Translation 2 (300 words)	20%	n/a
Assignment	Reflective log (1000 words)	40%	n/a

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

Baker, Mona: 1992, In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation,, Routledge, London,
Eoyang, Eugene Chen: 1993, The Transparent Eye: Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics,, University of Hawaii Press Honolulu, Hawaii,
Cheung, Martha P. Y.: 2009, Chinese Discourses on Translation: Positions and Perspectives,, St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester,
Hung, Eva: 2005, Translation and Cultural Change,, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,

Other Resources

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