La formation à la traduction professionnelle en filière de Langues modernes appliquées : enjeux et défis, idées reçues et atouts
Training for Professional Translation in the Applied Modern Languages Programs: Issues and Challenges, Received Ideas and Advantages

Summary/Abstract: In order to have a complete overview of the translation training and of the impact the latter may have on the graduates’ career on the market of translation and intercultural communication, one has to carefully consider, from the very start, the principles of curriculum design, as well as the professionalizing, multidisciplinary, and multilingual features of this training. Our paper is a brief outline of the competences that are formed and developed in an Applied Modern Languages programme. Thus, we will mark the differences with other programmes based on linguistic competences. In this way, we will highlight the strengths of professional translators. To make this inventory complete and relevant, we thought it would be also useful to present the most important issues, the peculiarities and the evolution of this training in a dynamic perspective involving new challenges, but also a certain resistance and the effect of society’s misconceptions and false perceptions of the translation professions. In this paper, we also make a few observations on the status of the translator and the regulation gaps, aspects that need to be tackled. Unless the latter are dealt with, realistic solutions to our problems will be very difficult to find.

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