A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education: Empowerment from Theory to Practice

Translation and translator education - fields in flux rethinking the epistemology of translator education key principles of socio-constructivist education on instruction and construction in the classroom initiation through dialogue authentic experience and learning in a translation exercise class knowledge construction and the translator's workstation assessment and the emergence of translator competence from dead bodies and talking heads to holistic second language acquisition in the classroom a conclusion... and a beginning.