Introduction: What Is Translation?, Translator's Tools

Sentence Issues

Reading: CB 1–6

Discussion: definitions of translation; the process of translation; difference from interpretation; tools and resources; sentence boundary; omission of subject and object; topic-comment structure in Thai; tense and aspect (Exercises #1–21)

Week 2

Nov. 3

Sentence Issues

Reading

• CB 6–9

• “ความแตกต่างทางโครงสร้างของภาษาไทยกับภาษาอังกฤษที่มีผลต่อการแปล” โดย ศ. ดร. อมรา ประสิทธิ์รัฐสินธุ์

Discussion: ; serial verb construction in Thai; voice; Exercises #22–38

Nov. 5

Sentence Issues  

Reading: CB 9–13

Discussion: dummy it; articles; false friends; Exercises #39–60

Week 3

Nov. 10

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 14–25

Discussion: types of texts; news writing structure in Thai and English; translating headlines, giving news source and summary; News #1 (Vietnam floods) and #2 (Bombs in New Delhi)

Student-presentation  1: 

Student-presentation  2: 

Nov. 12

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 26

Discussion: News #3 (Drug charges)

Student-presentation  3: 

Week 4

Nov. 17

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 27–29

Discussion: News #4–6 (train crash, kidnapping, tunnel fire)

Student-presentation  4: 

Student-presentation  5: 

Nov. 19

News (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 30

Discussion: News #7 (Tainted milk)

Student-presentation  6: 

Week 5

Nov. 24

No class (Chula Academic Fair)

Nov. 26

Week 6

Dec. 1

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 31–32

Discussion: News #1–2

Test I (news English-Thai; 20 points)

Student-presentation 7: Sujinna (Oxford Dictionary of English)

Dec. 3

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 33

Discussion: News #3

Student-presentation 8: Sudaporn (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

Week 7

Dec. 8

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 33–34

Discussion: News #4–5

Student-presentation 9: Suchayada (Oxford Collocations Dictionary)

Student-presentation 10: Suda (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed.)

Dec. 10

No class (Constitution Day)

Week 8

Dec. 15

News (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 35

Discussion: News (Thai-English) #6

Student-presentation 11: Suttapa (Practical English Usage)

Student-presentation 12: Sutthimas (Oxford English Dictionary)

Dec. 17

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 36–39

Discussion: analyzing informative texts; informative passage #1 (Dislodging admirer)

Student-presentation 13: Somrudee (พจนานุกรม ฉบับมติชน)

Week 9

Dec. 22

No class (Midterm Week December 22–26, 2007)

Dec. 24

(Midterm Week December 24–28, 2007)

Test II (news Thai-English; 20 points)

Week 10

Dec. 29

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 39–40

Discussion: informative passages  #2–3 (domestication, supermarket)

Student-presentation 14: Sonsoi (พจนานุกรม ฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน)

Student-presentation 15: Sutticha (Roget's International Thesaurus)

Dec. 31

No Class (New Year's Eve)

Week 11

Jan. 5

Informative Text (English-Thai)

Reading: CB 41–43

Discussion: informative passages  #4–6 (rainforest, happiness, marine life)

Student-presentation 16: Sabaitip (Wikipedia)

Student-presentation 17: 

Jan. 7

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

Week 12

Jan. 12

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 43–45

Discussion: informative passages #1–3

Student-presentation 18: Sakulrat T. (คลังคำ)

Student-presentation 19: Waruorn (การแปลอังกฤษเป็นไทย: แนวคิดและวิธีการ)

Jan. 14

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 45

Discussion: informative passage #4

Student-presentation 20: Sineenat L. (Guide to Grammar and Style)

Week 13

Jan. 19

Informative Text (Thai-English)

Reading: CB 46–47

Discussion: informative passages #5–6

Student-presentation 21: Siritida (?)

Student-presentation 22: Siriwan (So Sethaputra, English-Thai Dictionary)

Jan. 21

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 47–52

Discussion: Exercises  #1 (Claire)

Week 14

Jan. 26

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 47–53

Discussion: Exercises  #2 ("Toil and Temptation")

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

Student-presentation 23: Sanita (Urban Dictionary)

Student-presentation 24: Satida (Longdo)

Jan. 28

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 53

Discussion: Exercise #2 ("Toil and Temptation")

Student-presentation 25: Sineenuch (English by Example)

Week 15

Feb. 2

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 54–55

Discussion: Exercises  #3–4 (Dahl's "William and Mary"; Martel's The Life of Pi)

Student-presentation 26: Sarita (The Internet Grammar of English)

Student-presentation 27: Santanee (A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar)

Feb. 4

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 55

Discussion: Exercise  #4 (Martel's The Life of Pi)

Student-presentation 28: Sirichai (A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language)

Week 16

Feb. 9

No class (Asalhapuja)

Feb. 11

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 56–57

Discussion: Exercise #5 (Lewis' Alice in Wonderland)

Student-presentation 29: 

Week 17

Feb. 16

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 57

Discussion: Exercise #6 (Thompson's "Final Break")

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

Student-presentation 30: 

Student-presentation 31: 

Feb. 18

Expressive Text

Reading: CB 57

Discussion: Exercise #6 (Thompson's "Final Break")

Feb. 23

Final Exam 8:30–11:30 a.m.

There will be five parts:

• Part 1: news (English-Thai)

• Part 2: news (Thai-English)

• Part 3: informative text (English-Thai)

• Part 4: informative text (Thai-English)

• Part 5: expressive text (English-Thai)