Translation Skills Development Course (Residential- 10 days)
This course aims to train around 30 participants using Sinhala, Tamil
and English. It will tap into the participant’s resource base
in any two of the above three languages and introduce him /her to basic
theoretical concepts of translation while creating awareness of
techniques involved in the process of translation. The main objective
of the course is to empower students with awareness of the basic
strategies involved in the translation of texts in different fields
such as creative, administrative, media and legal. They will also learn
to transfer knowledge at multiple levels as well as function as
educators, policy planners, administrators, media personnel, creative
writers etc. Moreover the course intends to equip participants in
general multi-linguality and aspects of multi-culture.
Course Content
- Strategies in reading : multiple ways of interpreting a text
- Development of simultaneous interpretation skills
- Target language/ text/ audience
- Issues and challenges in translating government
documents
- Text and Intertextuality
- Different text types : genre and register
- Creative writing
- Equivalence in Translation
- Cohesion and Coherence in the text
- Legal translation
- Technical terms : the role of classical languages
- Translation and the media
- Field Trip - Study oriented
Training Course on Teaching a Second Language (Sinhala/Tamil
- Residential 5 days )
- An activity based course providing theoretical and
methodological orientation to those who teach Tamil or Sinhala as a
second language to adult learners in order to enhance and
improve their teaching skills and provide a better
understanding of the nature and the structure of the respective first
and second languages. The course includes the socio-historical and
political perspectives of teaching Sinhala and Tamil as second
languages, Dialog and the Problems of Second Language Teaching, Dialect
Variations, Constructive Grammar, Teaching Methodology, Error
Analysis and Language Testing, Preparation and use of
teaching materials, visual aids etc.
Second language skills development course: Tamil language (Residential)
- Objectives - Development of second language skills of
participants
- For whom - Those interested in improving their second
languages skills in reading, writing, listing and spelling
- Entry Requirement - Those who have sat for the G.C.E (O/L)
or learning interest in Tamil language
Second Language for Public Officers (Sinhala, Tamil - part
time 108 hours)
- Offered to public officers who are required to
achieve the level of competency as per the schemes
of recruitm
