Teaching Media Translation: which One to Choose, Technical or Non-Technical Media-Based Lessons?

One of the most challenging issues ahead of translation teachers is to choose suitable teaching material and techniques for the media translation courses. With the advent of new technologies and the dramatic change they’ve gone through, teachers have a wide variety of options at their disposal to choose from. To name a couple of them one can think of the internet, data projectors, satellite receivers, CD and DVD, education software, digital dictionaries, mp3 players, VHS, VCD, and DVD players, etc. In this paper attempt has been made to provide an overview of the use of technical media as a tool for media translation instruction. First a definition will be given of technical media comparing to that of non-technical media. Then, attention will be paid is on the necessity of incorporating the former in the media translation courses. Another issue to be put forward is a discussion of an eclectic selection of technical media-based materials. At this level, the article suggests a framework for structuring lessons using such a type of technology for media translation courses. The aim is to give translation teachers a better insight into the use of new technologies in the classrooms.