Teaching Translation: Issues, Problems and Solutions

Teaching translation is a challenging task for teachers and students of foreign languages, and practitioners of Arabic language and literature do not constitute an exception. To overcome this problem, and preparethe students to join the work forcein the market through their expertise, not just their degreewhich is necessary in its own termsin providing a road map for courses that will help students in translating. In this paper, we attempted to provide a road map for the teaching of translation in classroom basedon our experiences and studies that we have had in the field of translation. We also tried to discuss what we should avoid, and show objectives of this lesson and post graduate studies in translation. Another goal was to find a way to teach translation in classrooms with a short look at the procedures that are followed by prestigious universities in the world; these objectives and strategies are presented in both short and long term manner. At the end, this article ended insome results, and the most important of these results include the following: the curriculum should be developed to have more practice-oriented and student-centered headlines.