English - General translation to French, introduction to post-editing and sight translation

Duration

English - General translation to French and introduction to post-editing : 30h Th
English to French sight translation : 30h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

English - General translation to French and introduction to post-editing : Valérie Bada
English to French sight translation : Valérie Maris

Substitute(s)

English - General translation to French and introduction to post-editing : Perrine Schumacher

Coordinator

Valérie Bada

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course is devoted to intensive translation practice (all textual types and genres as well as short sentences). It particularly focuses on idiomatic rephrasing, grammatical accuracy, and avoidance of lexical and syntactic traps. The cours will also include a theoretical and practical introduction to neural machine translation and post-editing. Special attention will be devoted to sight translation (technical skills and training).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course, the students should have further developed their translating responses: rephrase idiomatically, avoid syntactic and lexical calques, find reliable sources. They will also have been introduced to machine translation and post-editing. This part of the course aims to explore the advantages and limitations of using AI tools for translation purposes.

 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

A good knowledge of English (as to understand complex specialised texts or news articles) and excellent command of the French language

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Most of the classes will be devoted to exercices (translation, postediting and sight translation).  

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Further information:

4 hours a week during the 2nd term: two hours devoted to translating and postediting texts of a diversity of genres and two hours devoted to sight translation. The classes are divided into small groups of 14 students max.

Recommended or required readings

Texts will be posted on e-campus.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam


Further information:

The final examination consists of :

- a written translation in class (40% of the final grade)

- a MT postediting exercise (20 of the final grade)

- a sight-translation exercise (40% of the final grade).

As most classes will be devoted to sessions of "drill" translation of various texts, regular attendance is strongly recommended.

This teaching unit ("Unité d'enseignement," or UE) is subject to the principle of the "note absorbante," which means that the student having obtained a mark below 8/20 for one of the learning activities ("activités d'apprentissage," or AA) will receive a failing grade for the entire unit and will have to retake the failed AA in the second session regardless of the mathematical average of the two AA grades

Students are required to read the ULiège charter on the use of AI https://www.student.uliege.be/cms/c_19230399/fr/faq-student-charte-uliege-d-utilisation-des-intelligences-artificielles-generatives-dans-les-travaux-universitaires. Please note that the students have to comply to the guidelines specified by the teacher.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Professional translators will be invited as guest speakers. Some extra sessions will also  be organised together with the Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters.

Contacts

Valérie Bada: vbada@uliege.be

Valérie Maris: valerie.maris@uliege.be

Perrine Schumacher:

p.schumacher@uliege.be

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