constructing pathways to translation - Higher Education Commission

III. Socially, the students horizons would expand and minds would be strengthened
through cross- cultural bi-lingual communication by the simultaneous transmission of
their own cultures and values abroad and the interpretation of foreign thought: ideas,
concepts and ideologies of the foreign text in their own language. In the 21st century,
access to international trade, industry, globalization and the outreach of mass media and
technology, increased migration and the recognition of the rights of indigenous cultures
and linguistic minorities is promoted through translation activity. It enhances sociability
and help to build bridges of friendship.
IV. Economically, the Translation program would compensate for the unemployment
problem pervasive in the field of Human and Social Sciences. Students would find an
amiable niche in the job market both at home and abroad.
V. Professionally, Translation Studies would prepare students with sound knowledge to
become competent future specialized translators. The discipline of Translation Studies
requires the synchronization of both its theoretical and practical aspects, to neutralize a
marginalization in both educational and vocational fields, so that students can visualize
their future careers accordingly. Gabr in http:/www.occurapid.com/journal/16edu.htm
Towards a Model approach to Translation Curriculum Development is of the view that
students should be taught:
a general set of communication skills that they can apply to the changing
demands of the future markets and indeed the changing trends in the
specialization of the market, the greater the market needs, the greater the
Translator needs diversifying their competence….[T] traditional philological
translator would eventually be unable to supply the skills needed by the market.
1.9 Research Objectives
Research Objective for the present research are three-fold:
� To explore the theoretical aspects involved in Translation, in order to outline the
kind of knowledge and skills that must underlie the practical abilities of the
translator.
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