GERMAN LANGUAGE MEDIATION I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0324

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

German Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GIARDINELLI EVITA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites:
Language skills required: A2/B1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Objectives

Educational Objectives:
The main objective of the course is to develop, through exercises in spoken discourse analysis, the ability to concentrate, selectively listen and memorize, and develop the strategies of synthesis and reformulation for text types drawn from current communicative contexts. In addition, the course provides students with cultural and technical backgrounds that will allow them to act as mediators in different areas: commercial, institutional and health care.
This course aims to achieve results according to the indications provided by the Dublin descriptors as follows:
- knowledge and understanding of the German language, through the acquisition of language skills in the foreign language, supported by appropriate metalinguistic reflection, particularly regarding specialized languages in the legal, institutional, commercial and health sectors. Good cultural knowledge related to the German language;
- Self- efficacy and organizational skills;
- highly developed communication skills in the native, with particular reference to the above-mentioned specialization areas; good communication skills in the foreign language (German) in the mentioned specialist areas.
- independent learning skills in building linguistic and cultural connections within the context of language and communication and cultural competencies.

Contents

Contents:

The 36-hour module (6 CFU) aims to develop skills in selective listening, memorization, synthesis, oral reformulation in Italian and German, and public speaking.
In addition to the techniques adopted to carry out a proper and accurate negotiation interpretation, students will practice the role of the interpreter in situations close to authentic negotiation interpretations.
The teaching material used in class will be adapted and based on the linguistic and cultural knowledge of the students enrolled in the second year of the course (CEFR level A2-B1).
The course provides students with the primary notions of negotiation interpreting, focusing on the following aspects:
- profile and role of the negotiation interpreter, what skills are required, how to acquire them and which tools to use;
- management of the interaction between the parties in a dialogic situation based on real-life tasks.

Extended Syllabus

Extended Program:
After the introduction to the basic concepts of language mediation and the profile of the interlingual-cultural mediator in the main areas of work (health, legal, institutional, and commercial), the course will then arrange a series of preparatory exercises, which will consist of
- analysis of dialogues in Italian and German;
- preparation of short speeches prepared impromptu in Italian and German;
- terminology research and compilation of professional glossaries;
- introduction to sight translation from and into German.

The second part of the course proposes listening, memorization, and synthesizing authentic audiovisual material, which examines interpreting in the commercial, institutions and health care sectors. These exercises also aim at the detailed study of terminological aspects and the correct compilation of professional glossaries.
Liaison interpreting simulations will focus on topics of no particular lexical difficulty.
Gradually, more challenging types of texts related to topics to the mentioned professional areas will be addressed. In this sense, the aim is to provide the students with the necessary tools to deepen their language skills, to develop the ability to analyze cultural aspects in mediation and to reflect on verbal and non-verbal communication channels in the interpreting process.

Recommended Bibliography

Reference Texts
- Broghelli Hafer, Donatella, Gengaroli Bauer, Cora, Italiani e tedeschi. Aspetti di comunicazione interculturale, Roma, Carocci, 2011.
- Carraro-Tomanek, Annamaria, Manuale dell’interprete di trattativa: Interprete di trattativa – una professione polivalente, Milano, 2001.
- Chessa, Francesca, Interpretazione dialogica. Le competenze per la mediazione linguistica, 2013.
- Cinato-Kather, Lucia, Mediazione linguistica. Tedesco-italiano, 2011.
- Di Meola, Claudio, La linguistica tedesca. Roma, Bulzoni, 2007.
- Gillies, Andrew, Conference Interpreting. A Student’s practice book, 2013.
- Göpferich, Susanne, Textproduktion im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 2002.
- Monacelli, Claudia, Interpreti si diventa! Una finestra su una professione tanto affascinante quanto impegnativa, Franco Angeli ed., Milano, 2015.
- Schwitalla, Johannes, Gesprochenes Deutsch: Eine Einführung. Berlin, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003.
- Todaro, Luca, Anticipazione e riformulazione. Strategie e abilità dell'interprete, 2013.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Methods:
Classes take place in the form of workshops; they are organized according to a defined scheme that combines theoretical aspects with an extensive practical part.
Lessons on the theoretical aspects will be assigned through in-depth readings during the course. Assessments will take place periodically. Indeed, individual and group reports will be drafted, and a final test taken.
The practical component consists of exercises in memorization, synthesis, and exposition of spoken text in Italian and German, both in class and at home, with subsequent class discussion of the problems that emerge during the exercise and solving them along with the instructor.
The topics and terminology covered in class and the related interpreting simulations are both the teaching material available to the student and the springboard for a more in-depth study required for the interpreters' skills and the principles at the basis of their code of ethics.
Students will be given feedback during the lesson with detailed indications regarding their strengths and weaknesses areas to work on.
The mode of work is in groups and individually.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Assessment methods:
The examination will consist of an oral test including:
(a) A sight translation from German to Italian of approximately 10-15 lines of a newspaper article; a sight translation from Italian to German for German native speakers.
b) An interpretation test of about 15 minutes on a speech in German. The choice of the examination text will be based on the topics covered in class.
The oral test aims at verifying the student's oral translation, mediation and communication skills.
The final grade is expressed in thirtieths.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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