Issues in Advanced Translator Training at Moroccan Universities

Very little has been published on translator education at Moroccan universities. This article, which appeared in Turjuman in 2012, is my attempt to sketch the state of advanced translation teaching in the country and to measure it against developments in the wider discipline.

Reference: El Karnichi, F. (2012). Issues in advanced translator training programmes at Moroccan universities. Turjuman, 21(1), 52–65. Tangiers, Morocco.

Abstract

Given the lack of extensive literature on translator education and training at university level in Morocco, this article offers a brief overview of the teaching of translation in advanced translation courses at Moroccan universities. Reference is made to the scarce published literature available locally on translation teaching, supported by publications and experiences from other parts of the world that address the same issue. This gives a basic picture of the current situation in the country's academic corridors. We hope to benefit from it by cross-checking the status of our syllabi, teaching methods and models against the fast-growing innovations, findings and approaches in the discipline. The main focus of the article is one of the most challenging issues in the new translator pedagogy: theory and practice within a university-level translator training programme.