Oct 2020 TI6110 Applied Translation (I): A Grammatical Approach to the Learning of Translation Skills

TI6110 Applied Translation (I): A Grammatical Approach to the Learning of Translation Skills (1 AU)

This course will provide students an opportunity to have a review of the grammatical rules and sentence structures of Chinese and English and conduct a contrastive analysis of the similarities and differences in sentence structures between English and Chinese. After the review and analysis, students will learn how to apply grammatical knowledge to the learning of translation skills. Hands-on exercises will be provided for students to identify and explain the grammatical hierarchies in Chinese and English. Students will also learn to evaluate the qualities and differences of various target texts (TT) in comparison with the source texts (ST). For practice, English and Chinese are given equal emphasis in terms of source language (SL) and target language (TL).

Time: Every Tuesday evenings

Date: 6 October 2020, 13 October 2020, 20 October 2020, 27 October 2020, 3 November 2020