Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-251).
Contents:
List of tables and figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Translation studies. The concept of translation ; Translation studies as a new discipline ; Translation theory ; An overview of the main trends in translation studies -- Chapter III: Text-based approaches to translation. Non-text-based translation approaches ; Text-based translation approaches -- Chapter IV: Didactics of translation. Translator competence and translator training ; Translation teaching in relation to foreign language studies ; Formal academic training ; Defining the scope of translation teaching ; An overview of translation pedagogy in the second half of the twentieth century ; Some current methodologies for the training of translators ; Translation assessment -- Chapter V: Translation teaching experiment: text in context. Aims ; Design of the experiment ; The informants' profile ; The teaching method ; The content of the translation lessons ; The conduct of the experiment ; The students' performance in the pre-tests and post-tests ; Results and discussion -- Chapter VI: Conclusions. Preliminaries and global findings ; Pedagogical implications ; Specific implications -- Appendices. Appendix A: Questionnaire for students ; Appendix B: Questionnaire for translation teachers ; Appendix C: Samples of some students' interviews: translation of text ; Appendix D: The lecture on register ; Appendix E: Lecture on genre -- Notes -- References.
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