translation studies. retrospective and prospective views

text items; hesitation phenomena in the search for potential equivalents.
When conclusions have to be drawn from this type of analysis, there
are a series of educational implications for enhancing the teaching of
translation, which also implies using protocols in collecting data which
should help teachers to improve such lessons.
According to Aly (1994), translation instruction … should encourage
the students to use frequently the dictionaries; it should deal with various
topics, in order to help the learner to get more practice in various text
types and styles; it should focus on the development of vocabulary; it
should tackle sentences and topics of different levels of difficulty according
to the students’ abilities; translation instruction should give the
opportunity to the students to develop their translation skills according to a
systematic order and sequence of materials; it should focus more on
practice, with very little theoretical guidelines, with much time spent on the
students’ practice in translation.
Finally, we maintain that by using a working protocol as a strategy
meant to develop the IT students’ awareness of the kind of problems
technical translation may place in front of them, learners can be given
support in acquiring technical translation skills in a more efficient manner.
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