ETI 432 | Course Introduction and Application Information - Department of English Translation and Interpreting

Course Name

Terminology Studies for Conference Interpreting

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
ETI 432	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	6

Prerequisites

ETI 337 To attend the classes (To enrol for the course and get a grade other than NA or W)

Course Language

English

Course Type

Elective

Course Level

First Cycle

Mode of Delivery

face to face

Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course

Group Work
Critical feedback
Lecture / Presentation

National Occupation Classification

-

Course Coordinator

-

Course Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Olcay ŞENER ERKIRTAY

Assistant(s)

-

Course Objectives	This course aims at providing students with skills of terminology studies by referring to published and online terminology sources before conferences in various fields. Apart from terminology building, this course aims at providing the students with practices of making research and acquiring basic information on the subject of the conference in question.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; will be able to reach trustworthy terminology sources. will be able to incorporate written and online terminology sources into every step of the translation process effectively. will be able to prepare for the conference in terms of terminology in cases of no texts available by using prior knowledge they have. will be able to transfer terms of various subjects into the target language accurately during a conference. will be able to analyze terminology from various fields of expertise conceptually and contextually.
Course Description	During courses, students will be provided with names of the speakers and/or subject of the conferences and/or briefs of the conference. Students prepare field-specific and structured terminology lists by utilizing online and published sources.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses	X
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Theoretic Information: Preparations required before the conference role of interpreter, codes of ethics, reliable terminology sources
2	Effort Model, interpreting strategies, self-repair strategies	Gile, D. (1995/2009). Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training. Revised edition. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Şener Erkırtay, O. (2025). Self-repair and motivation in legal and medical simultaneous interpreting: reflections from student Interpreters. English Studies at NBU, 11(1), 43-68. https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.25.1.3
3	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Gender Inequality	Various online sources
4	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Social Media	Various online sources
5	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Social Anxiety	Various online sources
6	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Hair Transplantation	Various online sources
7	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery	Various online sources
8	Midterm Exam
9	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Technology and AI	Various online sources
10	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Mock conferences	Various online sources
11	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Mock conferences	Various online sources
12	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Mock conferences	Various online sources
13	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Mock conferences	Various online sources
14	Specific Topics in Terminology Studies: Mock conferences	Various online sources
15	Review of the Semester
16	Final

Course Notes/Textbooks

Various articles

Suggested Readings/Materials

Diriker, Ebru. 2005. Presenting Simultaneous Interpreting: Discourse of the Turkish media, 1988-2003

Gile, Daniel. 2009. The Effort Models of Interpreting. Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training

Gile, D. (1995/2009). Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training. Revised edition. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins

R.Xu (2018) Corpus-based terminological preparation for simultaneous interpreting-R.Xu Interpreting, Vol. 20,Issue 1, Jan 2018, p. 29 – 58

R.Xu (2018) Corpus-based terminological preparation for simultaneous interpreting- Interpreting, Vol. 20,Issue 1, Jan 2018, p. 29 - 58 https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/intp.00002.xu

Şener Erkırtay, O. (2025). Self-repair and motivation in legal and medical simultaneous interpreting: reflections from student Interpreters. English Studies at NBU, 11(1), 43-68. https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.25.1.3

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	15
Presentation / Jury
Project	1	15
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade	1	40
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	1	10	10
Presentation / Jury			0
Project	1	10	10
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms	1	30	30
Final Exam	1	40	40
		Total	180

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired,	-	-	-	-	-
2	To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods,	-	-	-	X	-
3	To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages,	-	-	-	-	X
4	To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production,	-	-	-	-	-
5	To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language,	-	-	X	-	-
6	To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired,	-	-	-	-	-
7	To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act,	-	-	-	-	-
8	To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields,	-	-	-	-	-
9	To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work,	-	-	X	-	-
10	To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources,	-	-	-	-	-
11	To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level,	-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.	-	-	-	-	-