Use of ICT on languages 2

Services 2. The role of the information and communication technology sector in expanding economic opportunity.

 Business activity creates jobs, enables technology transfer, builds human capital and physical infrastructure, generates tax revenues for governments, and, of course offers a variety of products and services to consumers and other businesses.

There are 4 Key strategies used to expand economic opportunity:

1. Creating inclusive business models.

2. Developing human capital.

3. Building institutional capacity.

4. Helping to optimize the "rules of the game".

    

   1. Creating inclusive business models.

   Involving the poor as employees, entrepreneurs, suppliers, distributors, retailers, custumers, and sources of innovation in financially viable ways.

    

   2. Developing human capital.

   

   Improving the health, education, experience, and skills of employees, business, partners, and members of the community.

    

   3. Building institutional capacity.
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   Strengthening the industry associations, market intermediaries, univesities, governments, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups who must all be able to play their roles effectively within the system. 

    

   4. Helping to optimize the "rules of the game".
    Shaping the regulatory and policy frameworks and business norms that help determine how well the economic opportunity system works and the extent to which it is explusive of the poor.
   
   

   "The Role of the ICT Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity"

   
   • Hardware
   • Internet
   • Telephony
   • Application
   • Software
   • Support service 
    

The "network effect" is crucial and only increases productivity when lots of people share access. 

 ICT has become the foundation of every sector of every economy, everywhere. 

 ICTs increase:

• efficiency
• productivity
• access to goods, services, information, and markets.

Technologies help expand economic opportunity.

 Smart communications and Smart money have two primary objectives:
1. To differenciate itself in the market.
2. To reduce costumer churn.

With a smart money account you can deposit and withdraw cash at a Smart Store. (Internet)  

 

Teaching 2. An effective use of ICT education and learning and experience.

ICT as a change agent for education
 

In the last 20 years, ICT have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life.

  ICT and learning and teaching processes.

• Have the potential to accelerate, enrich, and deepen skills.
• To help in school experience to work practices.
• Revitalize teachers and students.
• Improve and develop the quality of education.

Teachers need to be involved in collaborative projects and development of intervention change strategies, with ICT as a tool.

How to introduce ICT in class?

Teachers need to be involved in collaborative projects  with ICT as a tool.
  1. Teachers should believe in the effectiveness of technology.
  2. Teachers should believe that the use of technology will not cause any disturbances.
  3. Teachers should believe that they have control over technology. 

Easy access to learning.

Now, students can access to:

• Resource persons.
• Mentors.
• Experts.
• Researches.
• Professionals. 

     Offer educational opportunities.

  ICT  ->          Add elements of vitality.

Improve the experience of students.

Modernize educational systems.

 ICT and learning motivation.

Learners find classes more interesting by using multi-media.

• Videos.
• Television.
• Multimedia computer software (text, sound and images).    

Translation 2. The new information and communication technologies (ICT) and translation competence.

 

Bilingual VS Translator.

   A bilingual person is someone that can communicate in two languages.
   A translator transforms words and ideas to another contexts. Has the knowledge to communicate in a different language to transfer ideas. 

 
There are specific competences/abilities that a translator has to have. 

• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent reading and comprehension skills
• Cultural knowledges in both languages   

What's a competence?

A competence is the ability to use knowledge in a new situation. Is the combination of skills, attitudes and behavior that enable us to perform in a certain situation.

Translation competence model.

• Knowledge about translation
• Isntruments
• Textual and communicative competence
• Cultural and intercultural competence
• Competences about the knowledge of the theme of translation
• Professional and instrumental abilities 
• Interpersonal competence
• Good composition and production of texts     

  ICT tools, helpful for translation

 

GENERAL TOOLS:

1. Internet
2. The use of corpus linguistics
3. Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries
4. General software (word, acrobat reader)   

SPECIFIC TOOLS FOR TRANSLATION:

1. Machine translation.
2. Computer assisted translation.
3. Specialized software.

Reception + transfer + formulation=

translation  

Reception: meaning, to understand the 100%.

Transfer: to move something (from one language to another).

Formulation: to create something new.   

ICT help to improve translation. :)