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The course is designed for the third-year English majored students in the fifth semester in order to continue enhancing the Japanese ability of students who have finished the courses of Japanese Language 1 and 2. This course also aims at fostering students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. In addition, the course provides the students with familiar topics related to famous places, shopping, travel and so on.

This course provides students with knowledge about method and technique to compare English and Vietnamese as well as knowledge of the trans-cultural perspectives between the East and West. Structural analysis is also another focus of this course and this emphasis helps students to recognize the mistakes in English language learning. This course in general strengthens students with necessary skills to conduct comparisons among different languages, to describe language from a critical perspective, to synthesize aspects of linguistic varieties, and to evaluate the English learning materials for language learners.

The subject aims to equip students with knowledge related consecutive interpretation. Via interpreting topic-based news such as environment, society and business, students have opportunities to improve speeding note-taking, memorizing skills, etc.

This course aims at equipping third-year students who major in Translation and Interpretation with background knowledge of British literature and culture. In terms of cultural aspects, the students will look at the overview of factors such as geography, history and politics that have had impacts the foundation of British culture. The analysis of these factors will help the students understand more deeply and be able to explain cultural phenomena in the countries which have been significantly influenced by British culture. Regarding British literature, the students will be provided with the introduction to acclaimed literary works and authors within the context of the work. Based on their knowledge of culture and literature, the students will practice translating extracts from the literary works in order to have a better understanding of literary language and be able to translate literary works.