The course aims to enable the students to get the necessary skills for sight translation. Furthermore, it targets that the students to be fluent speakers of both languages, to focus on the message rather than the structure, to get used to different kinds of texts including speeches or informative documentary ones and to convey the message in an active way. This course covers the basic theory and techniques which are required to perform reading out a text (written in a different source language ) in a target language accurately and fluently. During the course, students learn and practise reading out loud techniques such as breathing, pauses, pronunciation, enunciation. The course also assists students in the development of skills required for sight translation such as reading comprehension, scanning for main ideas, fast reading, analysis of language, vocabulary enrichment, and paraphrasing. This course not only provides practice in sight translation but also provides the background on consecutive and simultaneous interpretation courses.
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