Week 1

Oct. 22

No class

Introduction: What Is Translation?, Translator's Tools

Sentence Issues

Reading: CB 1-3

Discussion: definitions of translation; the process of translation; difference; tools and resources; sentence boundary, omission of subject and object, topic-comment structure, direct and indirect object, particles and complements in Thai; tense and aspect (Examples)

Sentence Issues

Reading

• CB 4-6

• “ความแตกต่างทางโครงสร้างของภาษาไทยกับภาษา อังกฤษที่มีผลต่อการแปล” โดย ศ. ดร. อมรา ประสิทธิ์รัฐสินธุ์

Discussion: agreement; tense, aspect; serial verb construction in Thai; voice; Exercises #1-18

Sentence Issues  

Reading: CB 7-9

Discussion: dummy it; articles; false friends; Exercises #19-26

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 9-20

Discussion: types of texts; news writing structure in Thai and English; translating headlines, giving news source and summary; news #1 (Quake)

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 21

Discussion: news #2 (Karachi-Lahore blazes)

No Class (Chula Expo: November 12-18, 2012)

No class (Chula Expo: November 12-18, 2012)

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 21-22

Discussion: news #3-4 (Indonesian train crash and Australian ice arrest)

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 23

Discussion: fact check

Class meets in BRK Computer Center

News (English-Thai and Thai-English)

Reading: CB 24-25

Discussion: English-Thai news #5 (Gunmen in Baluchistan)

Test 1 (news English-Thai; 20 points)

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 25–27

Discussion: Thai-English news #1-3 (อดีต ทหาร, เก๋ง ชนสะพาน, ไฟ ไหม้สุวรรณภูมิ)

No class (Father's Day)

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 28

Discussion: news #4 (ยะลา)

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 29–31

Discussion: news  #5–7 (ปล้นร้านเซเว่นฯ, จับ ไม้พะยูงเถื่อน and น้ำ ท่วมดินถล่ม)

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 32–35

Discussion: analyzing informative texts; informative passage sample (Eleanor Roosevelt), informative passage #1 (Facial expressions)

(Midterm Week: December 24–28, 2012)

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 36

Discussion: informative passage #2 (football)

Test 2 (news Thai-English; 20 points)

No class (Midterm Week: December 24–28, 2012)

No class (New Year's Eve)

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 37–38

Discussion: informative passage #3–4 (parenting and dinosaurs)

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 39–40

Discussion: informative passages  #5–6 (seppuku and happiness)

Test 3 (informative text English-Thai; 20 points)

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013)

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013)

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 41-42

Discussion: informative passages #1-2 (ทดสอบ ผลิตภัณฑ์ and ประเทศ ไทย)

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 43

Discussion: informative passage #3 (coconut)

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 44-45

Discussion: informative passages  #4-5 (elephant and orange)

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 46-51

Discussion: Translating expressive text; exercise  #1 (Larson, Hattie Big Sky)

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 52-53

Discussion: Exercise #2-3 (Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes and Hautman, Godless)

Test 4 (informative text Thai-English; 20 points)

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 54-55

Discussion: expressive text passages #4-5 (Hoffman, The River King and Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes)

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 56

Discussion: expressive text passage #6 (Grace Bedell)

• Practice translation: Panu Trivej, "Fool"
  

Review

Reading: CB 1-56

Discussion: review news, informative texts, expressive texts, tests

Test 5 (expressive text English-Thai; 20 points)

Final Exam (8:30-11:30 a.m.) Dictionaries (electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room.

BRK ?