Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
5404429 Advanced Chinese-English Interpreting 2.0 2
Description Based on Introduction to Chinese-English Interpreting, students continue with practical exercises aimed at reinforcing skills in active listening, recall and memory retention, gist extraction and note-taking in both directions. Increasing lengths and difficulties of speeches of diverse topics also enables students to strengthen and apply more advanced analytical and synthetic skills. Students continue to brush up on skills obtained previously and learn essential SI strategies, including paraphrasing or re-oralizing, split attention, multitasking, the time lag between interpreter and speaker, anticipation and reformulation.