How to Educate Competent Translators

"The present study aims to elaborate on Translator Education via adopting the Social Constructivist Approach and the PACTE model of translation competence. According to this approach, students actively take part in the acquisition of different components of translation competence through collaboration with other students. They need to acquire translation-related competencies through a 4-year study program. The researcher and the scientific committee in Cihan University-Erbil developed an Undergraduate Translator Training Program which encompasses an up-to-date curriculum and a detailed syllabus design, and serve the professionalization of translation trainees. As educating expert translators requires much more than teaching a foreign language, the program equips the students with bilingual, extra-linguistic, theoretical, instrumental, strategic, and psycho-physiological knowledge.
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