Week 1

Jan. 10

1: Sentence Issues

Reading

• Course book pp. 1–5

2: Sentence Issues

Reading

• CB 5–8
  
• อมรา ประสิทธิ์รัฐสินธุ์, “ความแตกต่างทางโครงสร้างของภาษาไทยกับภาษาอังกฤษที่มีผลต่อการแปล” (CB 32–53)
  

3: News (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 8–16
• Maggie Lu Yueyang, "Australian wildfires kill one, destroy 100 homes near Sydney," Reuters (2013)
• News story structures
• Jasmine Roberts, "Inverted Pyramid Style," News Writing Basics, Ohio State University Pressbooks
• "Reporting and Writing Basics," Handbook of Journalism, Reuters
• "Story Structure and Styles," Investigative Journalism Manual
• "Three Story Structures," American Press Institute

4: News (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 10–16
• Tini Tran, "China warns more may be sickened by tainted milk," Taiwan News (2008)
• Journalism Style Guides
  
• Reuters Handbook of Journalism, Thompson Reuters Foundation (2008)
• The Associated Press Stylebook 2020–2022, Associated Press (2020)
• British vs. American English
• "The Differences between British and American Terms," Lexico
  
• "British and American English," English Grammar Today, Cambridge University Press
  
• Adam Brock, "Six Differences Between British and American English," Voice of America (2017)

5: News (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 10–17
  

Discussion: Road accidents; news E-T exercise 3

• Classcast
• Traffic/accidents news issues (Contributors provide sentence examples from quality news sources. As usual choose English sources from our Horizons list. Provide commentary and further resources in your Annotations column.)
• News (E-T) exercise 3 (66-car crash)
• Translation collection (Contribute your translation and annotation to the collaboration page for peer and instructor feedback. Designated translators, make sure to give your version. Add rows where necessary.)
  
• Discussion
  

6: News (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 10–17

Discussion: Narcotics; news E-T exercise 4

• Classcast
• Narcotics news issues (Contributors provide sentence examples from signed-up Thai news sources. As usual choose English sources from our Horizons list. Provide commentary and further resources in your Annotations column.)
  
• News (E-T) exercise 4 (heroin)
• Translation collection (Using your pseudonym, contribute your translation to the collaboration page.)
  
• Discussion
  
• Practice test 1
• Test paper
  
• Discussion
  

7: News (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 10–18

8: News (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 10–18

9: News (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 8–20
• Drug Offenses
• "Drug Offences," Crown Prosecution Services
• "Offenses and Penalties," Drug Abuse Prevention and Control, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School

10: News (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 8–20

11: News (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 8–20

12: Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 20–22
• Amanda Fiegl, "A Brief History of Chocolate," Smithsonian (2008)
• "History of Chocolate," North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum (2017)
• The Dark Side of Chocolate, directed by Miki Mastrati and  U. Roberto Romano (2010 documentary; video clip, 46:32 min.)
• "The Production of Chocolate," Geography 351, Simon Fraser University (2003)
• "From Farm to Bar: How Is Chocolate Made?," Fairtrade (2020)
• Laura Caso, "A Culture of Cacao and Chocolate," Chocolate, ReVista, vol. 20, no. 2 (2020)
• "บทเรียนจากกัมมี่แบร์และโกโก้ : การละเมิดสิทธิมนุษยชนในอุตสาหกรรมอาหาร ใครรับผิดชอบ ?," ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ตที่รัก (2019)
• Thaireform, "โกโก้ พืชทางเลือก--อีกหนึ่งทางรอด รักษ์ป่าน่าน," Isranews Agency (2019)
• Alfred Steinberg, "Chapter Thirty-Five," Mrs. R: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1958)

Discussion: Informational text types and characteristics; passage from Mrs. R; informative text E-T exercise 1 (chocolate)

• Classcast
• Informative text (E-T) exercise 1 (chocolate)
• Translation collection (Using your name or pseudonym, contribute your translation to the Chula Office 365 collaboration page. Add new rows as necessary.)
  
• Discussion
  

13: News (Thai-English)
Reading

• CB 10–19

14: Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 21–25
• Chris Stokel-Walker, "From Hijabs to Pretzels—What Makes an Emoji?," The Guardian (2018)
• Ed Yong, "North Atlantic Right Whales Are Dying in Horrific Ways," The Atlantic, Storygram, The Open Notebook (2019)

15: Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 21–25
• David A. Snowdon, "Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Lessons from the Nun Study," The Gerontologist, vol. 37, no. 2 (1997)
• "Physiology of Aging," RACGP Aged Care Clinical Guide (Silver Book), Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• "Why We Age," Leibniz Institute on Aging
  

16: Informative Text (English-Thai)
Reading

• CB 21–26
• Karla Jessen Williamson, "Inuit," Encyclopædia Britannica (2022)
  
• Patricia Gadsby and Leon Steele, "The Inuit Paradox," Discover (2004)
• Marla Cone, "Ancestral Diet Gone Toxic," Los Angeles Times (2004)
• "The Inuit Way: A Guide to Inuit Culture," Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada (2006)
• Amanda Robinson, "Country Food (Inuit Food) in Canada," The Canadian Encyclopedia (2018)
• Jimmy Thomson, "Scientists Find Link between Group of Pollutants and Health Problems in Inuit," CBC (2018)
• Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, "How Families Eat In The Arctic: From an $18 Box of Cookies to Polar Bear Stew," NPR (2019)
• Rebecca Hersher, "Why You Probably Shouldn't Say 'Eskimo,'" NPR (2016)
• Lawrence Kaplan, "Inuit or Eskimo: Which Name to Use?," Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  
• Topics: ethnicities, naming, diet, modernization
  
• เพ็ญสุภา สุขคตะ, "ทำไมคนยองเมืองลำพูน จึงไม่เรียกตัวเองว่า 'ไทลื้อ,'" มติชนสุดสัปดาห์ (2019)
• "นิทรรศการ 'พวน' ในพาข้าว," ศูนย์ มานุษยวิทยาสิรินธร
  

Discussion: Climate, diet, ecology, biology; informative text E-T 4 (Eskimo)

• Classcast
• Translation process and methods
• Informative text (E-T) exercise 4 (Eskimo)
  
• Translation collection (Using your name or pseudonym, contribute your translation to the Chula Office 365 collaboration page. Add new rows as necessary.)
  
• Discussion
• Case studies and review (sign up and instruction sheet)
  
• Nonfiction challenge (mock test 3)
  
• Topics review (three-minute translation topic presentation)
  

17: Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 20–24
  

Discussion: Informative text (E-T)

• Classcast (Log in for midterm identification 11:00–11:10 a.m. before you start the test.)
  
• Test 3 (informative text E-T; test files and instructions are posted on our announcement page for official download and reference during the test period, after which the paper will be accessible from here)
  
• Test 3 paper     
  
• Discussion 

18: Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 20–24
• English grammar resources
• "Glossary of Linguistic Terms," SIL International
• "The Internet Grammar of English," University College London
• "Contents"
• "Index"
  
• "Sentence Structure," Analysing Language, BBC
• "Sentences," Bitesize, BBC
• "Sentence types"
• Phil Atteberry, "Sentence types," University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
• Adam Szczegielniak, "Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language," Harvard University
• Magda Oiry, "Syntax," University of Massachusetts Amherst (2009)
  

Discussion: Test 3 issues; English grammar and sentence structure review; informative text T-E exercise 1 (ประเทศไทย); geography; history; etymology

• Classcast
• Informative text (T-E) exercise 1 (ประเทศไทย)
• Translation and annotation (Contributors provide your translations and annotations.)
  
• Discussion
  

19: Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 20–25

Discussion: Informative text T-E exercise 2 (สงกรานต์); zodiac information, local tradition topics and vocabulary

• Classcast
• Informative text (T-E) exercise 2 (สงกรานต์)
• Translation and annotation (Contributors provide your translations and annotations.)
  
• Discussion
  

20: Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 20–25
• "Malayan Tapir," Tapir Specialist Group (characteristics, habitat and range, threats to their survival)
  
• "Malayan Tapir," EDGE of Existence, Zoological Society of London (about, distribution, habitat and ecology)
  
• "What in the World Is a Tapir?," National Geographic (2012; video clip, 1:47 min.)
  

21:  Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 21–27
  

22:  Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading

• CB 20–25

Discussion: Informative text T-E challenge

• Classcast
• Informative text challenge
  Each student prepares a mock informative text (Thai-English) test for classmates to practice online and to discuss. Be creative about how you design your test to assess effectively the language issues and proficiency in Thai and English that we have worked on thus far. Your file should reach my e-mail inbox during the weekend before March 28 so I have time to download in preparation for class. Have fun challenging each other!
  
• Topics for assessment: sentence boundaries, omitted subjects/objects, topic-comment, person, number, tense/aspect, serial verb construction, passive voice, meanings and uses of it (ex. dummy it, donkey anaphora, pronoun), articles and demonstratives, diction (collocation, register, false friends/cognates), text analyses (text types, audience, medium)
  
• Authentic Thai source text preferable (not translated from or informed by English, so language issues unique to Thai can realistically be presented)
• Translation collection (Mock test takers, post your English texts to the shared document.)
• Excerpt 1: กุลธิดา สามะพุทธิ, "เรื่องราวของ นักสะสมเปลือกหอย แห่งราไวย์," นิตยสารสารคดี, 14 Jul. 2020. (Thai and English texts)
  
• Excerpt 5: "กรงไม่ใช่บ้าน," นิตยสาร สารคดี, 25 Oct. 2011. (discussion)
  

Reading

• CB 20–25

Discussion: Informative text T-E

• Classcast (for those who would like to have access to me during the test period via this channel)
  
• Test 4 (informative text T-E; test files and instructions are posted on our course announcements page for official download and reference during the test period, after which the paper will be accessible from here)
• Test 4 paper   
  
• Discussion
  

24: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading:

• CB 26–30
• Stephen King, The Stand (1978, Anchor, 2011)
  

Discussion: Test 4 issues; fiction E-T exercise 1 (The Stand)

• Classcast
• Fiction 1 (Stephen King, The Stand)
• Translation and annotation
• Discussion
  

No class (Chakri Memorial Day)

25: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 26–31
• Ben Marcus, "Cold Little Bird," The New Yorker (2015)

Discussion: Fiction E-T exercise 2 ("Cold Little Bird")

• Classcast
• Fiction 2 (Ben Marcus, "Cold Little Bird")
  
• 25 Ways of Looking at "Cold Little Bird" (Contributors provide your translations and annotations in the shared document.)
  
• Discussion
• Storytelling: Building Characters and Drama
• Rabindranath Tagore, "The Victory" (1892)
• Sample translation and analysis   
  
• 25+ Ways of Looking at Ken Liu, "The Gods Will Not Be Chained" (Live translators, type your Thai "subtitles" in the shared document.)
  

No class (Songkran)

26: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 26–31
• Smith Henderson, "Treasure State," Tin House, no. 64 (2015)
  

Discussion: Fiction E-T exercise 3 ("Treasure State"); voice; tone; mood; dialect; sentence structure; diction

• Classcast
• Fiction 3 (Smith Henderson, "Treasure State")
  
• Translation and annotation (Contributors provide your translations and annotations in the shared document.)
  
• Discussion

27: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 26–32
• Roald Dahl, The BFG (1982)
  

28: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 26–32

29: Fiction (English-Thai)

Reading

• CB 26–32

30: Review

Reading:

• CB

• Classcast
• Review and case studies 2 (sign up sheet and instructions)
  

• Translation consultation (Sign up for a time slot if you'd like to go over your work or have questions about translation issues.)

• Exam Zoom Meeting Room (Join the exam session and turn on your work device camera. Students are admitted from the waiting room for check in before the exam starts.)
  The final exam paper will be posted in announcements on our section page. Follow instructions there.