constructing pathways to translation - Higher Education Commission

how they do it. They will need above all, to acquire a sound knowledge of the raw
material with which they work; to understand what Language is and how it comes to
functions for its users.
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All these research endeavours need some platform, where all these efforts and directions
are to be streamlined, standardised and energies channelised towards singular goals,
ultimately culminating in academic, and finally, in the national educational development.
It is the establishment of Institutes that can provide the platforms for training translators.
Such scientific training will naturally include components of Workshops and Seminars as
has been suggested by Dr Naeem Kalasra. After all Translation is a practical enterprise
and not merely a theoretical exercise.
In Pakistan, initial efforts in this regard can be made by introducing the discipline at the
Post graduate level in the Department of Language, Literature and Humanities (FLL&H)
in all the major Public Sector Universities. After basic orientation, efforts may be
directed towards setting up a separate Centre of Translation under the patronage of the
same Department. Within the pedagogic framework of the International Islamic
University (IIUI), the Women’s Campus, in particular, where the present researcher is
currently employed, such centre can successfully function, at the Department of English.
(FLL&H). The English Department has already launched a Translation program in the
Centre of Basic Studies, which is at its very initial stages. At the Masters level the
subject of Translation Skills is being introduced as only an optional subject. But the
current study will surely provide strength to the existing programmes. It may help to set
up a separate Translation Centre within the Department of English (LL&H). The
suggested centre will also facilitate the teaching of Linguistics at the Graduate and Post-
Graduate level, since Linguistics is a central subject in Translation studies. Linguistics is
a discipline which studies Language in its own right and as a tool for generating
meanings. Therefore, it has a great deal to offer to the budding discipline of Translation
Studies. It will certainly offer translators valuable insight into the nature and function of
the Language, which is a pre-requisite for any translator in the world. This is particularly
true of modern Linguistics, which no longer restricts itself to the study of language per
se but embraces such disciplines as Text–Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycho and Socio