Communication strategies (Spanish language, 1 semester)

Course: General and specialized translation and interpreting from Spanish and English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Communication strategies (Spanish language, 1 semester)
Code
НДП.05
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. To demonstrate an adequate level of mastery of national and foreign languages to perform written and spoken communication, namely in the situations of professional and academic communication; to present the results of their studies in these national and foreign languages. PLO 4. To assess and analyze critically vital social, individual and professional issues and offer tactics for their resolution, in difficult and unpredictable conditions, which require the application of new approaches and forecasting. PLO 5. To find optimal ways for effective interaction in the professional community and with representatives of other professional groups at various levels. PLO 21. To know the specifics of translator’s work in various fields (textual, media, audiovisual, web-space) and be able to use necessary tools and techniques.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
An intercultural competent person must possess a certain level of linguistic and regional studies, sociolinguistics, sociocultural and intercultural knowledge and skills that ensure real communication in a professionally oriented field of activity. The development and actualization of practical knowledge and skills takes place in various types of activity: communicative, research or cognitive search, independent creative activity aimed at self-improvement and self- development.
Course content
This discipline aim is to train the highly qualified translators\interpreters from the Spanish (second) language on the basis of a cultural approach, broadening the worldview of students, deepening their scientific and theoretical knowledge and practical skills. For this purpose, it is planned to provide information about communication strategies (development of speech communication skills in view of the management concept of communication) and consolidate skills through a system of various exercises aimed at combining the theory of communication with the practice of applying its main postulates. Within the framework of the course, all the knowledge and skills acquired during the previous years of study in the practice of the Spanish language are summarized and the students ability to choose the necessary communicative strategy, depending on the specific situation, is improved
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Верба Г.Г, Лопес Тапія Ф.. Curso superior del español, видання друге доповнене і перероблене (Підручник) Вінниця: вид. Нова книга, 2021. – 343 с. Kochubinska-Smychkowska J. Sintaxis del español moderno. – K.: Вид-во КНУ ім. Тараса Шевченка. – 2002. – P. 128 p. Moreno García C. Curso de perfeccionamiento. Salamanca : Sociedad General Española de Librería, 1991. – 343 p. Tácticas y estrategias pragmáticas. Glosario de términos / Centro Virtual Cervantes, 1997-2022 – [Електронний документ]. Режим доступу: https://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/plan_curricular/niveles/06_tacticas_pragmaticas_glosario.htm Corpus del Español (NOW, 2012 - 2019) – [Електронний документ]. Режим доступу: https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/now/ SynthEsa, Diccionario Sintáctico y Discursivo del Español, 2021. – [Електронний документ]. Режим доступу: http://postup.zzz.com.ua/SyntacticDictDevelopers.html
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Teaching methods: • oral response, blitz oral test; • development of communicative and cultural topics; • exercises in oral expression • conducting a conversation and maintaining a dialogue on the subject of the course • writing abstracts, essays
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment: exam. Points are distributed as follows: max. 60 points during the semester, and min. are 36 points. Evaluation criteria: • oral answers, additions, participation in practical discussions, blitz oral test: RN 1.1–1.3, 2.1-2.2, 31-3.2, 4 – min. 5 points; • exercises in oral expression: RN1.1-1.3, 3.1-3.2 - min. 5 points; • communicative and cultural topics: RN1.1-1.3, 3.1-3.2 - min. 10 points; • writing an abstract and an essay on the subject of the course and its defense\presentation: RN 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.2, 4 - min. 16 points; • evaluation of all types of work is carried out in points, in accordance with clause 7.1 of the work plan of scientific discipline.
Language of instruction
Spanish

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Serhii Borysovych Fokin
M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology