Cahiers de Traduction
Volume 32, Numéro 2, Pages 182-193
2026-06-10
Teaching Specialised Languages To Foreign Learners And Translation Apprentices: Between The Restriction Of Standardisation And The Communicative Needs.
Authors : Hanifi Mustapha .
Abstract
The qualifier "specialisation" linked with the term "language" might initially suggest that it is something different, distant, and separate from the general concept of language; this could result in a specific standard teaching strategy that goes beyond the usual content in general language teaching. This perception of specialised languages may lead to a shift toward the strict standardisation of their terminology, which will be considered as entities independent of general language. This will give rise to a principle—adopted to some extent by those involved in teaching specialised languages—that reaches the point of limiting the focus to terminology as the predominant and prevailing feature of all types of specialised languages. But can such a restrictive perception of specialised languages respond to functional and educational data primarily related to the context of foreign learners and translation trainees? Can we limit ourselves to terminology and focus on it as an educational subject? And can we indeed teach specialised languages in isolation from the general framework represented by general language, especially when it comes to important elements related to communicative and cognitive tasks primarily?
Keywords
translation ; specialised languages ; term ; general language ; communicative tasks
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