Undergraduate translation teaching: a pedagogical perspective
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2020-12-26
Authors
Shehab, Ekrema
Thawabteh, Mohammad Ahmad
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Abstract
In institutions across the world, translation training is accorded sacrosanct status in translation
studies. Recent developments in translation and technology, combined with the increasingly
prominent role of translation in the global marketplace, have given the discipline
a renewed significance both academically and culturally. In Palestine, however, translator
training has for many years subsisted on limited resources, despite the fact that translation,
in most Palestinian universities English departments, has been a requisite course in English
language and literature degrees at undergraduate level for the past four decades. Drawing on
first-hand experience from teaching undergraduate translation courses at Al-Quds University
and An-Najah National University, what this article attempts to investigate, then, is the status
of translation teaching at the undergraduate level at English departments in Palestinian
universities. To that effect, the paper uses a selective body of authentic translation examples
and outlines some important issues which are indispensable to undergraduate translation
teaching. The study offers advice and guidelines to university professors and instructors who
do not have degrees and/or training in translation and find themselves obliged to teach undergraduate
translation courses at their respective English departments.
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translator training , undergraduate translation teaching , translation syllabi and curricula