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LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN INTO GERMAN AND FROM GERMAN INTO ITALIAN Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
German Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
FERRARESE PATRIZIA URSULA
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Level A2 + (Common European Framework of Reference)
Objectives Contents The course has a dual purpose: in Module I the course aims to consolidating and deepening the German language skills in terms of comprehension and written and oral production. In Module II, the emphasis will be placed on translations from Italian to German and from German to Italian.
Extended Syllabus Module I - Reflection on the language at a theoretical and practical level
- Lexical study and written production of texts in German language (Arbeit mit Texten und Wortschatzerweiterung). The course offers a wide range of texts in order to provide learners with the fundamental tools of lexical analysis and in order to enlarge their vocabulary. The rules of writing and stylistics are introduced in image description exercises. The course is based on a teacher-centred-teaching, which includes hours of tutorial (reading, conversation, exercises etc.) and lektorship (CEL).
Module II - Translation from German to Italian and from Italian to German
- Introduction to Translation - theories and techniques: Comparison of theories and methodologies; text linguistics and the pragmatic dimension (Übersetzungsorientierte Texttypologie nach Katharina Reiß); analysis of typical errors.
- Introduction to Translation (from German to Italian) - practice : reuse of the structures and vocabulary which the students already possess in view of text comprehension and production through the treatment of non-specialized texts which are suitable for both, an analysis of the basic structures of the German language and translation practice.
- Introduction to Translation (from Italian to German) - practice : development and deepening of the fundamental structures of the German language in order to consolidate written skills and to develop a methodology that allows to deal with the translation of journalistic texts taken from the daily and periodical press, as well as of literary texts of increasing difficulty . Moreover, so-called "parallel texts" will be used in order to allow a comparison of different translation solutions.
Recommended Bibliography Since this annual course is closely linked to social, political and economic circumstances, the teaching material will be provided from week to week during the lessons. Non-attending students have the possibility to retrieve the didactic material during the hours of reception.
Teaching Methods Within the annual course the following teaching methods are provided:
- teacher-centred-teaching
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
- Written exams (description of a picture in German language, translations from Italian to German and from German to Italian). The exams are held during the year or in the examination dates established after the teaching period. The duration of each written test is 180 minutes.
- The final exam is an oral exam (the results of the written part will be considered). The examination dates and times are published to the web.
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