The course is designed for junior students to introduce an overview of interpretation and consecutive interpreting, in particular, prominent theories and types of interpretation, especially emphasizing the code of ethics necessary for interpreters. In addition to theoretical knowledge, students will focus on practising the basic interpretation skills such as memorizing, taking notes, summarizing, etc. while interpreting sentences or short paragraphs (English and Vietnamese) with durations from 30 seconds to 01 minute on popular topics (education, culture, economy, society, science, etc.).

Interpretation 2 course is designed for third-year students in the second semester of Bachelor of English Technical Interpretation/Translation at HCMUTE. Students have an opportunity to master and practice some basic interpreting skills such as understanding, writing, text summarizing, note-taking, memorizing, public speaking, problem-solving and English-Vietnamese improving. Students can be trained by Eng-Viet and Viet-Eng interpreting practices and assignments in class and at home. Those practices are in the length of 2-3 mins with various topics (short lessons, travelling topic-based speeches and talks) in the purpose of helping students develop their appropriate attitudes selectively and constructively towards the academic and economic-social values.

After Interpretation 1 and 2, Interpretation 3 continues developing students’ English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English interpretation skills at a more intensive level. On the development trend of society, the course focuses on fostering students’ background knowledge, cultural knowledge, English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English language skills regarding science and technology. By participating in classroom activities, students practice interpretation skills via clips and videos selected from diverse and authentic science and technology sources.

This module is designed to introduce the freshmen of the English Linguistic at the University of Technology and Education in Ho Chi Minh City to the Technical Translation Interpreting, learning objectives, learning outcomes and professional orientation. The module 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.

The course is designed for the second-year English major students in the third semester  in order to introduce new language as the second language. This course aims at enhancing students’ Japanese communication ability at elementary level. In Addition, the course also provides the students with familiar topics related to self-introduction, greetings, family, etc.