Supporting intercultural competence using tanslation in english department : master students-Mascara University as a case study

الملخص EN

The present study attempts to explore the role that the translation course plays in shaping and enhancing the intercultural (IC) competence of foreign language students in the department of English at the University of Mascara.

A questionnaire and an observation were adopted.

Excerpts of texts dealing with English and American cultural particularities were provided to the students.

The paper sketches out the main approaches that handled the concept of intercultural competence (IC), the models that have been suggested, as well as the place of IC in translation studies.

The result showed that intercultural competence is best invested and explored during translation courses.

For this, teachers need to be aware its importance.

Thus, the texts to be translated have to be tactfully selected to meet the course objective.