Translation in the Tourist Domain (Spanish)

Course: Translation from Spanish and English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Translation in the Tourist Domain (Spanish)
Code
ДВС.2.01
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyse and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 11. Know the principles, technologies and techniques necessary to produce oral and written texts of different genres and styles in Ukrainian, Spanish and English. PLO 22. Use the knowledge of history and culture of Ukraine and Spanish- and English-speaking countries for ensuring successful communication and adequate translation. PLO 23. Identify and analyse the specific features of a communicative situation in translation and impact on translation decisions. PLO 28.1 Demonstrate the ability to implement communicative interlingual mediation on the basis of the knowledge of linguistic and cultural specifics.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Knowledge of Spanish at the B1+/B2 level. 2. Be able to work with sources of background information, lexicographic sources in two languages. 3. Possess basic skills of written and oral translation from Spanish into Ukrainian.
Course content
The aim of the course is to develop the skills of translation in the field of tourism for students learning Spanish as a first foreign language. It is part of the student's free choice block in the specialization "Translation in Intercultural Communication". The course consists of two parts: 1) lectures that introduce the situations of translation in tourism, the typology of modern tourist texts and the main strategies for solving the most common difficulties in their translation; the language of instruction is Spanish; 2) the practical part of the course is designed to develop skills in translation and interpretation of tourism texts, to overcome specific translation difficulties caused by the field or conditions of interlingual communication; the languages of teaching, learning and assessment are Spanish and Ukrainian.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Гетьман З. О., Орлова І.С. Жанрові теорії перекладу: Підручник. Київ: Освіта України, 2014. 468 с. Верба Г.Г., Гетьман З.О. Підручник з перекладознавства : підруч. для студ. вищ. навч. закл. Вінниця : Нова Книга, 2013. 303 с. Calvi M.V. Lengua y comunicación en el español del turismo. Madrid, Arco Libros, 2006. Moreno C., Tuts M. Cinco estrellas. Español para el turismo. Madrid, SGEL, S.A., 2019. 223 p. A complete list of recommended references is available in the Program of the discipline.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, practical classes, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
During the semester, the assessment is carried out in accordance with the types of work and the form of control described in clause 7.1 of the program of the discipline: written assignments (max. 2.5 - min. 1.5), oral response (max. 2 - min. 1.2), written part of the group project (max. 10 - min. 6), oral part of the group project (max. 5 - min. 3), control translation (max. 20 - min. 12). For a complete list of types of work and criteria for their evaluation, see paragraph 7 of the Program of the discipline. The grade is based on the results of the student's work throughout the semester and does not include additional assessment measures. Students who do not score the minimum positive number of points - 60 - receive a "fail". To pass the credit test, such students must complete the written assignments for which they have a debt (the total amount of completed assignments must be at least 60% of the amount of assignments planned for the semester) and/or write a test translation.
Language of instruction
Spanish, Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Iryna Mykhailivna Shyyanova
M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology