Building Translation Skills in an Academic Framework

MARIA-TEODORA CREANGĂ
Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu

Abstract
The article investigates the issue of translator education at undergraduate level in the context of an ever-increasing need for professional translators on the market. Although a number of studies have focused on the teachability of translation, there are certain aspects in translator education/ training that are still neglected and which may account for certain shortcomings of the teaching/learning process. I argue that identifying a number of key competences in professional translators and using that information to develop a set of basic skills in undergraduate students by means of well-chosen class activities may be a more realistic and successful approach.

Keywords: teaching translation/ interpretation; translation skills; reception skills; transfer skills; delivery skills; translation teaching approach.

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