دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 25-43
2016-06-30

Motivating Translation Studies In The Algerian Higher Education Context: Realities And Myths

Authors : Maouche Salima .

Abstract

times. Evidence of this singular activity is deeply implicating our sense of language, identity, and intercultural communication. Wherever people have brought new languages and cultures, translation has been there, variously transforming societies, texts, and traditions. Therefore, Translation is crucial, highlighting its impacts and importance in the development of individual subjectivity, agency, and identity. It constantly grows in visibility with the globalizing culture of the twenty-first century. Across the world, translation inflects the arts and entertainment, daily conversations, news and information technologies, as well as business, trade, finance, law, government, education, military, and scientific research. Its effects and complexities have generated themes for different and attractive literary and fiction works, and countless Internet sites. So much so, the word “translation” itself has become a metaphor for transformation or transposition of many kinds. Over the last few years, developments in the teaching and the learning processes of professional competence in Algeria have become a key strategy and concept not only for higher education institutions but for the authority too. So as to build map route objectives, we are trying to answer the following research questions: Can we really set a motivation basis to teaching saliently Translation in the Algerian higher education within a new reform: LMD? How can teaching the key skills and techniques to translate effectively between English and French/or/Arabic possible using a mixed methodology in Algeria? Which language proficiency in the target discipline can be fostered and developed? On which linguistic and discipline basis can we set and implement intensive practical training in English- French- Arabic translation and interpreting skills and techniques? Therefore, the paper at hand seeks to, because of the vertiginous accelerating developments in different fields; satisfy to a certain extent the needs to teaching translating integrating a principal factor: motivation. According to these elements, our research methodology based on experimentations and whose data source is “in class activities”, we resulted at a fact that this discipline needs considerable practices and mainly time, material and patience to achieve such objectives.

Keywords

Motivation - Translation Studies- Algerian Higher Education