General Skills II

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge and mastery of the common techniques taught in the course just before this unit.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, support the work and presentation and discussion of papers.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to contribute to the improvement of skills in reading, interpreting, translating and public presentation of technical texts in Portuguese and English.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Dictionaries in Portuguese and in English. Glossaries Technicians in Portuguese and in English. Portuguese-English dictionaries. The Web as a resource to support the interpretation and translation. Dictionaries and glossaries online. Online translators. The B-ON online library of knowledge as the basis of technical and scientific texts to deduct the contextual meaning of terms in English. YACHT: Bank multilingual terminology of the European Commission. Basis of text in English and Portuguese - ON LINE CORPORATION. A bidirectional parallel corpus of text databases compared Portuguese-English: COMPARA. Reading, interpreting, translation and presentation of technical and scientific texts in Portuguese and in English.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Monograph: 100.0%

Bibliography

http://ec.europa.eu/translation/index_en.htm

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/freesearch.html

http://oxforddictionaries.com/

Dicionários Técnicos PT-ENG-PT

http://ec.europa.eu/translation/writing/style_guides/english/style_guide_en.pdf

Environmental Engineering Glossary Environmental Engineering Glossary

http://civil.engr.siu.edu/ray/glossary.htm

IATE Banco terminológico multilingue da Comissão Europeia http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQueryLoad.do?method=load

Links para glossários técnicos Links para glossários técnicos www.jrdias.com/jrd-links-2.html#fluids

ON LINE CORPORA Fundos de texto em Inglês e Português. <http://corpus.byo.edu/>

Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. A P Cowie, I R McCaig & Ronald Mackin (1984). Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction. Webster, L. 1997. The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction (Wiley Professional), Wiley.