Translation Technology

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work at a professional level across at least two languages
• Monitor and evaluate professional activity, including self-reflection
• Use specialist IT skills confidently and appropriately in relevant professional contexts
• Manage deadlines and make effective use of your time

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how translation theory is applied in a professional setting, dealing with the complexities of working and thinking globally and across cultures.
• Effective use of technology in translation and multilingual settings
• Industry requirements in terms of use of technology to produce work of a professional standard.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• undertake a substantial translation project and produce work of publishable standard with the aid of CAT tools
• evidence advanced theoretical knowledge and professional skills over an extended piece of work
• analyse and reflect on your own professional practice through the critical evaluation of the effectiveness of relevant CAT tools and your use of them

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Translation exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Group and individual, principally oral but also some written
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.