Learning objectives
1) Develop the critical skills necessary in adopting translation strategies for different text types, also at a contrastive level.
2) Reach a high level of competence in the various language skills as well as those of translation.
3) Be able to present personal research projects in English.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Discovery Learning – a Corpus Linguistic Approach to English Language Study
The course will examine various text genres with a view to investigating the linguistic and lexico-grammatical markers that distinguish each particular genre. The course particpants will be introduced to corpus linguistics with a view to developing their analytical skills by means of consulting representative and specialized corpora, not only in the general search of meaning in context and co-text (collocation, colligation, semantic preference, positive or negative semantic prosody, but also in the development of both writing and translation skills.
Full programme
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Bibliography
To be communicated at the beginning of the course
Teaching methods
Lectures;
Translation seminars;
Presentations
Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination;
Oral on the more theoretical parts of the course
Other information
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