Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

Translation teaching in relation to foreign language studies

According to Kiraly (1995: 20), since translation skills are related to language skills, translation instruction stands to benefit a lot from the insights of foreign language learning and teaching. Among the methods

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   which have been adopted in foreign language teaching methodology, one can cite: the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, the Audio-Lingual Method and the Communicative Method (4). However, of all these methods it is the Communicative Method, more specifically the communicative notions of language function and communicative competence, which has proved to be the most relevant to translation teaching. With regard to the second notion ‘communicative competence’,
   

Kiraly, referring to House (1980), states that
translation is ultimately a professional and an academic exercise. Students should acquire translation skills whenever possible by using them in situations that simulate real translation contexts. Translators’ communicative competence is not just knowing about translation as an ideal set of correspondences or even about how to use translation to communicate interlingually. (Ibid: 34)

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