Linguistic accessibility: Practical training (5cr)

Objective

Students
- plan, carry out and assess a practical training period where they promote linguistic accessibility
- apply the principles of linguistic accessibility
- promote linguistic accessibility in a chosen environment.

Content

Content
- Planning, carrying out and assessing a practical training period
- Reporting on the practical training period and sharing the learning outcomes in a linguistically accessible manner
- Practical training in a chosen environment (e.g. workplace community, theatre, library, event)
- Promoting linguistic accessibility (e.g. interpreting, subtitling, translating into Easy Language, incorporating pictures)

Qualifications

Prerequisite: The module Linguistic accessibility in the basic studies in Interpreting and linguistic accessibility, or similar competence.

Further information

Level: innovator

Part of the compulsory practical training periods in the degree studies. Can be carried out as an international work placement or through work-based learning. The practical training period can be integrated into the course Linguistic accessibility: Project 5 ECTS.

Recommended to be studied after the completion of the course Evaluating linguistic accessibility.