69271 - Language Mediation between English and Italian (Second Language) (CL2)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student knows the basic strategies of language mediation and will be able to use them in basic communication situations.

Course contents

In this Mediazione module the basis of linguistic mediation will be taught, through the use of simulations of interpreter-mediated exchanges between English native speakers and Italian native speakers in daily contexts (restaurant, hotel accommodation, clothes, travel and transport). This course will also introduce the practice of sight translation both from and into English.

Teaching methods

Each topic will be introduced with a presentation and the students will be actively involved in role play simulations and sight translation exercises.

Assessment methods

This module will be assessed through the active involvement of a student in the mediation of a bilingual exchange and a sight translation test. Students' skills will also be tested during the semester.  

Teaching tools

Photocopies, powerpoint/prezi presentations, the course will be also on Moodle, and it will be regularly updated.

Office hours

See the website of Irene Frosi