[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Book details:

A Review of the book “An Introductory Textbook on Translation” ISBN: 978-99924-3-413-4

Written by Fatima El-Imam (yusraipek@hotmail.com)

Design & Technical output by Ali Alamin Alhaj

Sudanese Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 1996

Reviewed by:

By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi 

 Northern Border University, (Women)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Formerly Dy. Director, Languages, Amity University, Lucknow

Review:

‘An Introduction Textbook on Translation’ is a good textbook on translation written by Dr Fatima El-Imam for translation students, amateurs, and newcomers as it claims to do so. This textbook provides basic information and observations – mostly derived from the experiences of the author. Therefore, it attempts to train translation students, amateurs, trainees, and newcomers to develop techniques, strategies, as well as the basic skills that are required for the process of translation.

The full forms of the Abbreviations used have also been detailed right in the beginning. The Appendices are exhaustive with all the necessary information, which will help the novice translator. They serve as samples to be imitated whenever relevant tasks are to be translated from any SL into any different TL.

This book is helpful for people with general interest and for skilled trainers and therefore I got drawn towards it and could not resist writing a review on it.

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[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Elena Aguilar says, “Teachers make thousands of decisions each day, say the experts, as well as those of us who have been in the classroom. Making decisions can feel exhausting and draining, or efficient and effortless. Decisions are easier if we have clear guiding principles or ideals as we are making them. When these don’t exist or we haven’t articulated them, our decision-making process can be haphazard.

A motto is a powerful way to encapsulate the principles, values, and ideals which guide us as teachers and from which we make decisions. So teachers, what’s your motto in the classroom?

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