Intercultural communication in teaching students specializing in translation and translation studies

Abstract: In the past decade, there has become increasing pressure for universities to incorporate intercultural and international understanding and knowledge into the education of their students. International literacy and cross-cultural understanding have become critical to a country’s cultural, technological, economic, and political health. It has become essential for universities to educate students so that they could function effectively and comfortably in a world characterized by close, multi-faceted relationships and permeable borders. Students must possess a certain level of global competence to understand the world they live in and how they fit into this world. The study of foreign languages can not only serve to help us understand what we as human beings have in common, but also assists us in understanding the diversity which underlies not only our languages, but also our ways of constructing and organizing knowledge, and the many different realities in which we all live and interact. The present study emphasizes the necessity of looking for a new approach to teaching students of the specialty translation and translation studies with regard to the formation of cross-cultural competence. Understanding social relationships and the way other cultures work is the groundwork of successful communication and performing the main task of an interpreter.

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