Translation and Interpretation

This course aims to help first year English majors reach the upper-intermediate level of their reading ability (B2). Through exposure to reading texts of different academic topics and text types and engagement in a variety of reading tasks, students are given chance to practice not only basic reading skills but also advanced ones such as making inferences, identifying tone and mood, recognizing the writer’s attitude and bias, identifying source of information, recognizing cause and effect, and reading statistical data. In addition, this course aims to enrich students’ vocabulary resource and develop their critical thinking. Last but not least, through the engagement in classroom activities and homework assignments, students are able to build up their skills of communication, presentation, individual work and teamwork.

The subject aims to equip students with knowledge and skills in translating administrative documents such as email, study application, degree, identification paper, etc. Via practicing translating these types of documents, students are supposed to improve the accuracy and clarity of the translation.

This course provides students with grammatical structures and terminology used in international business contracts and related rules and laws. During the course, students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills will be developed and reinforced in order to enable them to apply previously learned knowledge in business environments. After the course, students can be able to draft some kinds of English business contracts in compliance with the laws.

The course is designed to highlight the learning objectives, requirements and professional orientation in English Applied Linguistics program at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education . In this course, students are provided with fundamental knowledge of Translation and Interpretation as well as Business fields in a systematic, scientific, complete and detailed way with practical situations. The course also aims to introduce the students to the methods and learning skills in general and the method of learning English in particular at the university level to help students achieve the desired results in order to gain general knowledge, necessary professional skills, as well as future career attitudes.