Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

The teaching method and the translation experiment

Given the structure of the experiment design (pre-test, evaluation, interview, lecture, post-test, evaluation, interview), the teaching method (consisting of three stages: a preparatory stage, a developmental stage and a practical stage), has had to be slightly adjusted. Thus, instead of starting with the first stage, i.e. the preparatory stage, and then moving to the developmental stage and the practical one, it was necessary to set the pre- test first and then move on to the lecture. Here, the introductory and developmental stages took place with varying degrees of length. As for the post-test, it was used not only as a means of practice, but also as a way of measuring students’ acquisition of the main point in the translation lesson. However, it has to be admitted that due to shortage of time, and given the number of translation points investigated in the experiment, the developmental and practical stages were not fully implemented, thus leading sometimes to a general feeling among students that some translation lessons were dealt with hastily and superficially.

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