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This course enables learners to review basic knowledge about different techniques in translating and compiling as well as avoiding mistakes while translating. Students are required to practice translating texts from English into Vietnamese and vice versa at an advanced level: practice translating texts in different fields including economics, politics, culture, technology (IT, Environmental Technology, Engineering, Electrical - Electronics). This course also helps students to improve their English reading comprehension skills, apply grammatical range, enrich lexical resources, vary rhetorical methods, as well as apply knowledge of Vietnamese and British-American culture in translating. At the end of the course, students understand the fundamentals of translating English-Vietnamese and Vietnamese-English.

Senior students who satisfy all the requirements aforementioned can undertake a graduation paper with an experienced supervisor assigned by the faculty. They have to adhere to every step of the procedure to do a thesis such as choosing the topic, tailoring the research proposal, adopting certain methods of collecting and analyzing data as well as presenting their research paper. After the course, students’ skills in independent research, information searching, analyzing and synthesizing, critical thinking are reinforced.

This course is designed to provide the students of Technical English Translation and Interpretation as well as of the Business English programs basic understandings of pragmatics in English communication, the meaning of sentences and utterances such as implicature

This course provides senior students with the opportunity to practice English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English translation at companies in need, thereby having the opportunity to experience the real working environment and obtain job skills needed to expand career opportunities. During the process, students will observe the working process, conduct translation, report work, then learn to manage time effectively to meet job demands.