Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6183 Advanced Diploma of Interpreting (Spoken Language)

Course Title: Demonstrate complex English proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
LANG5900C	City Campus	TAFE	535T Social Care and Health	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2024, Term1 2025

Course Contact: Ya-Ping Kuo

Course Contact Phone: +(61 3) 9925 3771

Course Contact Email: ya-ping.kuo@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to conduct complex, creative, routine and non-routine spoken or signed communication in English, to meet the oral or signed language and communication needs of interpreting in complex settings. It involves highly developed listening and speaking skills or signing and reading skills for users of signed languages, at a high level of complexity to participate in workplace, social and cultural activities.

This unit applies to those working as interpreters in a range of fields or contexts.

This unit is delivered in a cluster as follows:

Ethics and Proficiency Cluster (Spoken language)

PSPTIS145	Apply codes and standards to professional judgement
PSPTIS139	Demonstrate complex LOTE proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
PSPTIS140	Demonstrate complex English proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Learners must have sufficient capability in English to undertake this unit, which is evaluated as part of the program's admission criteria. 

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	PSPTIS140 Demonstrate complex English proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
Elements:	1. Participate in social and cultural activities. 2. Deliver presentations in English. 3. Negotiate and persuade. 4. Provide summaries of complex oral or signed communication.

Learning Outcomes

Overview of Assessment

Assessment will be ongoing during the semester and you will be asked a variety of assessment tasks and activities to assess your level of competence against key performance criteria.

These assessment tasks/activities may include, but are not limited to:

- Practical demonstrations

- Observation checklists

- Written assessments