Monterey Institute of International Studies
Monterey, CA, United States
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Language Assessment

Considers issues in language testing including reliability, validity, test bias, and ethics. Examines differences and similarities among placement, proficiency, achievement, aptitude, and performance testing. Explores alternative evaluation procedures. Prepares students to evaluate tests and to develop original language tests. Prerequisites: Language Analysis and Educational Research Methods. ...
 

Examines the syntax and discourse of modern English for ESL and EFL teaching. Spotlights practical applications for the classroom. Prerequisite: Language Analysis...
 

design. Leads students to develop their own curriculum design project. Prerequisite: Principles and Practices of Language Teaching....
 

Introduces the interplay between language and society. Discusses regional and social dialects as well as the role of linguistic attitudes and language variation in language learning and teaching....
 

Introduces social science research design, descriptive and analytic procedures, basic statistics, and their application to research on language learning and teaching....
 

Serves as an introduction to linguistic analysis. Includes projects based on fieldwork in phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, and pragmatics. Discusses importance of language awareness. Includes pedagogical strategies for consciousness-raising....
 

Develops skills in classroom observation and an uderstanding of observation as a fundamental professional development and research activity....
 

Provides an overview of language teaching and learning principles from both historic and current perspectives. Illustrates application of teaching principles through practical examples....
 

The CALL certificate program enables graduates to manage and develop curriculum for language learning programs utilizing computer technology. It includes courses in computer assisted instruction, language software evaluation, distance learning and delivery, and use of the Internet and other technological resources for language teaching. ...
 

The LPA certificate program prepares students to administer language programs or schools. It includes courses in teacher education and supervision, budgeting, accounting, and marketing. The LPA certificate is not offered by any other TESOL program in the US. ...
 

The TESOL and TFL certificate programs utilize the more practical courses from the MA course work to provide a sound basic foundation for teaching, but exclude the theory courses required for an MA....
 

Conference interpretation enables participants in a multinational meeting to communicate with each other in a seamless fashion, making the language barrier almost imperceptible. Such interpreting is generally performed in two modes: consecutive and simultaneous. In consecutive interpretation, the interpreter usually sits with conference delegates while a speech is being made, listens to the ......
 

Although interpretation and translation have much in common, the practice of each profession differs in the same way that written language differs from spoken. Thus, both translation and interpretation involve careful analysis of meaning in context and attention to extra-linguistic aspects of communication. Interpreters must be good public speakers who are adept at grasping meaning and solving ......
 

Translation involves transferring a written message from one language to another. The text to be translated may be a treaty, a law, or a press release; a user manual, bidding specifications, or engineering plans; a novel, a poem, or a play; a handwritten letter, a medical textbook, or a historical document‹in short, anything that is written is a potential translation assignment. The Un......
 

In today’s world borders are becoming a mere cartographic detail rather than a barrier to human interaction. International, national, and local organizations, corporations, banks, government agencies, industrial enterprises, hospitals, the courts, the military, and the many other institutions that constitute global societies rely on the services of translators and interpreters to communica......
 

Provides an introduction to the profession of court interpreting for students of all languages. Students are given an overview of the US criminal justice system, English legal language, criminal and civil procedure, with English templates for developing terminology glossaries in their own languages. The court interpreter’s code of ethics is presented, and students engage in role-playing ac......
 

Emphasizes practical knowledge necessary to succeed as freelance or in-house translators. Defines the role of the translator and the realities of working in the profession, including the job market, salary negotiation, and future trends. Students learn to write resumes, cover letters and to how find clients or employers. Marketing, advertising, and negotiating are covered in depth, as are legal......
 

Provides an introduction to the profession of interpretation while preparing students for practical work. Heightens awareness of issues relevant to the profession, including different professional environments, professional ethics, interpersonal relations, conference organization, diplomatic etiquette, parliamentary procedure, and professional pride and dignity. Helps students develop, establis......
 

Provides an introduction to basic concepts and offers a general conceptual framework for the study of translation theory. Students acquire the tools to identify, analyze and resolve translation problems while developing a rational approach to translation. The lecture is largely non-technical, relying on the basic concepts of logic used as tools in discussing problems of translation. ...
 

Advanced Language Enhancement courses in English, French, Spanish, Japanese or Russian for Translation and Interpretation are conducted for students preparing to enter GSTI. This unique intensive program is designed to fill the gap between traditional language instruction for communicative purposes and language instruction specific to the needs of students of translation and interpretation,......
 

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