Translation has been studied from
different perspectives and has long been a core issue for
most sciences from Linguistics, to literature and from
Philosophy to Politics. Pedagogies of translation however
stayed behind. The study of the relation between Education
and translation, how to teach translation, how to deskill
translation, how to test translation and how to design
translation courses did not have the due attention. Reasons
for this may include the dominance of linguistic study, and
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The question of whether or not the Qur'an uses synonymy is not the domain of this research, though it is a very important part of the arguments that led to both different interpretations and different translations of the holy text. The problem of this study is mainly how different translators dealt with Qur'anic words that seem to represent a case of synonymity. The study investigates the strategies used by different Qur'an translators in translating these words, and analyzes the contexts where each pair occurs proposing a model for evaluating these translations. In this model, context of the...

This book includes case study research papers on translation and translation pedagogy. Part one handles Problems of identifying the needed skills for novice translators, problems of rendering implicatures in translating literary texts, and problems of translating the labels of linguistic terminology. The second part of the book presents case study research papers on educational issues in translation; a survey of the strategies employed by university students in studying translation and of the teaching techniques used by university instructors in training students on translation, an analysis...

This book reports on a study that was conducted to investigate the effect of using a suggested program in basic reading on developing the reading skills of second year English Majors of the Primary Division in Faculties of Education in Egypt who are EFL prospective teachers for the Primary stage. Word identification skills; structural analysis and contextual analysis, were the only skills handled in the program. Instruments of the study included an inventory to determine the subskills of structural analysis and contextual analysis, a pre-posttest in basic reading, the English Proficiency Exam...