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I am employed as a maternity leave replacement, teaching Frech to Years 8 to 12.

NAATI Practitioner ID: CPN9FQ09MI worked as a freelance translator working directly with clients and for agencies translating general texts as well as legal contracts, news reports, tourism and promotional texts, and various documents required for visa applications.

I completed my final teaching practical placement at NGS, teaching Years 8, 9 and 10 Chinese while also observing the teaching of Stage 6 classes. During this placement, I planned and delivered units of work, provided feedback in informal formative assessments, and created and marked end-of-year summaitve assessments.

During this practical placement, I planned and implemented units in French for Years 7 and 8.I Received ‘Exceeds Expectations’ in 15 out of the 37 performance sub-descriptors in the Supervising Teacher’s Final Report.

I worked as a Tutor and guest lecturer in the following translation and linguistics courses: - Chinese into English translation stream for MODL5108 Preparation for Translation Accreditation - Systemic Functional Linguistics in MODL5106 Text Analysis for Translation - HUMS1005 / ARTS5505 Personalised English Language Enhancement (PELE) - Personal Project course in the Introductory Academic Program (IAP)I also worked as a Research Assistant for the English Language… Show more I worked as a Tutor and guest lecturer in the following translation and linguistics courses: - Chinese into English translation stream for MODL5108 Preparation for Translation Accreditation - Systemic Functional Linguistics in MODL5106 Text Analysis for Translation - HUMS1005 / ARTS5505 Personalised English Language Enhancement (PELE) - Personal Project course in the Introductory Academic Program (IAP)I also worked as a Research Assistant for the English Language Acquisition Support for International Students (ELASIS) research project (Principal Investigator: A/Prof Mira Kim).My duties included:• Teach lectures, tutorials, and workshops in translation and linguistics courses at postgraduate level, and in English language enhancement courses at all degree levels.• Teach intensive professional and academic English enhancement workshops for KEPCO employees from Korea, and Australia Awards Scholarship students in the International Academic Program.• Compile, invigilate, and mark Chinese professional translation accreditation examinations.• Maintain the Moodle online learning system sites for all the courses in which I taught, and responde to student enquiries. • Conduct case study interviews, enter and analyse data in MS Excel, carry out literature reviews with EndNote and Mendeley, and co-present at research conferences. • Assist with the development, implementation, and research of a personalised English language diagnostic assessment tool.• Serve as the main point of contact for all enquiries about the Personalised English Language Enhancement course. Show less

I worked as one of two Project Managers managing a team of 26 translators and editors using Memsource to translate a total of over 70,000 English words for our client at Akvopedia to be used on the Chinese version of their website. My main role included: - receiving and distributing the work - communicating with our client throughout the project - resolving various issues - ensuring the project was running smoothly - working closely with the Master Editors to ensure… Show more I worked as one of two Project Managers managing a team of 26 translators and editors using Memsource to translate a total of over 70,000 English words for our client at Akvopedia to be used on the Chinese version of their website. My main role included: - receiving and distributing the work - communicating with our client throughout the project - resolving various issues - ensuring the project was running smoothly - working closely with the Master Editors to ensure we maintained high quality and consistency - deliver the translations to our clientSee below for examples of our work. Show less

I worked as a translator for the International Chinese Language and Culture Centre at Tsinghua University where I translated information from Chinese into English (around 3,600 words) about their Chinese Language Program to be used on the English version of their website.See below for a sample of my work.

Main duties included: - managing the store during the evening shift - supervising and managing team members and contractors in all departments - ensuring customers were being provided with efficient and friendly service - resolving customer complaints and various other related issues