تطوير الكفاءات الاحترافية لدى المترجم المتدرب
Globalisation and technology have turned the translation market upside down. New working patterns have emerged as a result, such as telework, online freelancing and self-employment, and they demand a combination of academic and business competencies.
A Gap in the Curriculum
Yet, as far as I know, the entrepreneurial side of our practice is not taught in university translation units or departments in the Arab world. Only a few programmes in the West have managed to embed such courses, and then as workshops or electives rather than core courses, despite the fact that these are exactly the competencies employers insist on in the marketplace.
Our recent review of many translation programmes in the Arab world found no courses or modules addressing these new practices. The focus has always been on developing linguistic skills and other cognitive abilities. The same applies in many Western and Asian countries.
My Research Question
My ongoing research asks how to embed such a workshop or course in a translation programme, and which pedagogical approaches would best facilitate it. The aim is to train students to develop self-directed, autonomous abilities in entrepreneurial activity across translation and other language jobs (interpreting, revision, proofreading, transcription), and to empower them with metacognitive competencies that will accompany them for a lifetime, such as setting up their own business, whether as a team of students running an agency or as an individually owned enterprise.
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