MAKE YOUR LANGUAGE RELEVANT!

TRANSLATION

• Students complain about having to take a language class

• They do not see how languages will help them beyond the classroom.

• Other countries teach 2-3 foreign languages and value language learning.

How to combat this?

ISSUES IN LANGUAGE CLASSES

• Interpreter on the phone (Language Line)

• Consecutive interpreter (law, medical)• Simultaneous interpreter (conferences $

$$)• Literary translator: prose, children,

fictional, non-fictional• Technical translation (websites,

documents0

TYPES OF CAREERS

• Irias’ suggestion/belief:• In addition to communicative exercises,

translation should be a focus. One exercise per chapter, starting level 1.

• We want students to train their brains to think in the target language.

• What better way? Teach them how to translate.

• Important: Teach them translation as a profession

TRANSLATION

Translation games:• Hot potato

• ‘do you know’ with whiteboards• Translation teams: writer,

dictionary referencer, grammar guru and runner. Switch jobs every

2 successful translations.

LOWER LEVELS

Career Units:• Early in year, contact ATA @ ata@atanet.org, Lauren Mendell• Curriculum Vitae (participles)• Cover letters (perfect tenses)

• Job interviews• Translators without borders

UPPER LEVELS

• Translation scenarios• Venn Diagram: compare

https://www.atanet.org/ to national organization of TL country vs international organisations• Bloopers: https://

www.atanet.org/client_outreach/translation_bloopers.php• Google Translate video let it go: https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAoVlFYf0

UPPER LEVELS