An Evaluation and Criticism of the Revised BA Program in English Translator Training

Davari, Hossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Firoozian Pouresfahani, Ailin; Hassani, Ghodrat

doi:10.30465/crtls.2020.29020.1687

An Evaluation and Criticism of the Revised BA Program in English Translator Training

Document Type : Research

Authors

Hossein Davari ¹

Saeed Nourzadeh ²

Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani ²

Ghodrat Hassani ³

¹ Associate Professor, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

² Assistance Professor, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2020.29020.1687

Abstract

After around three decades of implementing the BA program in English translator training approved in 1990 which was accompanied by many serious criticisms, finally, in 2017, its revised version was approved and implemented. This revised program first aims at enhancing the students' language skills and their translation competence and then making the major more specialized. Due to the importance of this considerable revision, in this paper, the researchers attempted to study and evaluate the program through the attitudes of ten faculty members from seven universities offering this major. The findings revealed that in their opinion, while the program has been considerably improved regarding some factors such as integrating up-to-date courses, paying attention to applied and local needs, attending to the Persian language, paying attention to new technologies and introducing various new references, it suffers from some weaknesses with regard to some courses, their syllabi, the proposed sources, and the prerequisites. In their opinion, with such weaknesses, the program will face challenges both in the process of its implementation and in achieving its aims.

Keywords

Evaluation

Curriculum

English Translation

Syllabus

Subjects

Foreign Languages

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