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This course is designed to provide students with talks and lectures about academic and social and natural science topics, and opportunities to discuss/debate follow-up issues. Simultaneously, they can sharpen their critical thinking skills which help them to reason, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, debate, and solve problems. Besides, they have a chance to widen their knowledge of advanced vocabulary, pronunciation, and functional language, which can be used to enhance their English accuracy and fluency in group discussions, debates, informative presentations, proposal presentations, persuasive presentations, negotiations, and conflict management. The course also helps improve such important study skills as working in groups, note-taking, and comprehending long lectures, as well as test-taking skills. Moreover, students’ awareness of the significance of critical thinking skills is also developed during the course

The course aims at helping students majoring in Technical Translation & Interpretation to practice text translation, Vietnamese to English and vice versa. Through the course, learners are able to improve their text analysis capacity, consolidate and sharpen their English grammar and vocabulary, significantly apply/ practically use and develop their knowledge of wide ranges of technical translation fields such as Environment Technology, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Regarding course accomplishment, learners are well-equipped with translation’s radical issues, have ability to translate texts of various technical fields, effectively exploit dictionaries, and express enthusiasm for Translation art.

The course aims at helping students majoring in Technical Translation & Interpretation to develop interpretation skills, from Vietnamese to English and vice versa. Through the course, learners have opportunities to reinforce background knowledge of science and technology as well as interpretation’s radical issues through various in-class interpretation practice activities. In addition, they are able to sharpen their interpretation skills of authentic and practical listening recordings as well as documentaries in terms of science and technology fields.

The subject aims to equip students with knowledge and skills in simultaneous interpretation. Throughout the course, students have chance to practice skills such as memorizing and speed note-taking. Students also practice their interpretation skills via simulated conference on many different topics.