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Mastering Sight Translation: Skills and Strategies for Fast Reading

Explore the essential elements of sight translation and fast reading strategies in this enlightening lecture series by Hala Ghanim. Sight translation involves orally translating written text, enhancing conversation and written language skills, expanding vocabulary, paraphrasing, prediction, public speaking, mental flexibility, skimming, and scanning techniques. Improve your reading comprehension by mastering skimming and scanning methods, crucial for efficient information retrieval. Discover practical examples and tips for effective skimming and scanning in various contexts. Elevate your sight translation abilities by honing these key skills!

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Mastering Sight Translation: Skills and Strategies for Fast Reading

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  1. Sight TranslationElements of ST &Fast Reading Strategies( lecture 2+3)HalaGhanim

  2. ElementSkills of Sight Translation Sight translation is an oral translation of a written text. • Conversation • Written language • Wide range of vocabulary • Ability to paraphrase • Prediction: • Good public speaking • Mental ability and flexibility

  3. Reading Comprehension • Sight translation requires that you have “the ability to comprehend written the text”. • The most key reading skills are: - Skimming - Scanning

  4. Skimming

  5. Examples of Skimming • The Newspaper – to quickly get the general news of the day • Magazines – to quickly discover which articles you would like to read in more detail

  6. Business and Travel Brochures – to quickly get informed • Skimming a book before buying it

  7. How to Skim

  8. Scanning

  9. Examples of Scanning • Google search list on the internet • bus / airplane/ movie schedule • Conference/ television guide • graph

  10. How to Scan • First look at how the author organizes his information • Look for bold faces, italics, different sized fonts, proper names, dates and Key words

  11. Conclusion • Elements of ST • Reading comprehension is very important for sight translation • Skimming

  12. Scanning

  13. Thanks For Your Attention

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