This course aims to
introduce students to the latest computer tools and translation software.
Providing practical applications of terminology, including building and
managing terminology databases. The focus in this course is on three main
topics: Corpus generation, website localization, and building databases. The
course also aims to acquaint students with the theories of computer-based
language teaching and various educational technologies in general, and to train
students to deal with different technologies, whether computers or projectors,
or distance education media, and making practical use of them in teaching and
learning languages.
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of the 12th week, the
student should be able to:
• Presenta apply how to manage translation with computer aided
technology
• Present the theoretical and
practical aspects of computer translation
•
To use examples of computer and Internet translation techniques
• Introduce the latest technologies
available worldwide
• To use TM technology in the right
way.
• To use computers and smartphones
to search for information.
• To use electronic learning
resources such as electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the automatic
translator, and their role in language learning and translation
• Acquire a sufficient experience in
the use of this multimedia in learning the language after graduation.
Teaching and learning methods
Lecture, explanation and examples in the classroom.
A theoretical presentation and then application on the
computer aided software and skills that can be used, accompanied by real
examples and practical exercises carried out by the student.
Methods of assessments
First evaluation written translation exam 20
Second evaluation translating a text by TM 20
Final evaluation Report 60
Main Content
Reading /
References / Notes
weeks
Content
:Topics (subject matter)for each week
1
Introduction to computer-aided
translation
2
TM historical background
3
The
leading translation memories
4
How
to translate with translation memory
5
How
to build a database
6
Translation memory features
7
Text analysis with translation
memory
8
Wordfast TM
9
Trados TM
10
MemoQ TM & Déjà vu TM
11
Workshop
(translating the text by translation memory1
12
Workshop
(revising the text by translation memory2
Basic sources and references for the course
Garcia, Ignacio 2015 Power Shifts
in Web-based Translation Memory.” Machine Translation 21
Meyer, Lynne Bowker
1993(ed.),Translation Memory and Text.” In Lexicography, Terminology and
Translation: Text-based Studies in Honour of Ingrid 175–187. Ottawa: s
Electronic Tools for
Translators,2001 by: Frank Austermuhl, St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester, UK.