Situated learning has become a dominant goal in the translation classroom: translation didactics is being developed in a learner-, situation- and experience-based direction, following constructivist and participatory teaching philosophies. However, the explicit use of situated approaches has, so far, not been the centre of attention in translation theory teaching and research training. As a con...

While translation has become “a full-fledged craft and profession” (Király, 2003, p. 3), the research on translation pedagogy has been relatively new and largely dominated by “anecdotal evidence and case studies” (Colina, 2003, p. 29). Translation teachers and scholars are faced with various problems and challenges, such as the modes of teaching and the proper evaluation methods. It was in cons...

It is obvious that translation plays an important role in the human communications. From ancient time up to now there has been debates about methods of translation. Some scholars preferred word for word and some others preferred sense for sense. Translators have a very important task to bring the sense of the text from one language to another language and alike. This study discusses the learnin...