The feasibility of teaching translation in the undergraduate level in the Yemeni universities

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This paper attempts to investigate challenges and difficulties that might have caused several recognizable setbacks when running the translation program at the university level.

The investigation process was carried out through a questionnaire and interviews with translation instructors who also tried to give objective reflections to their students’ problems and needs.

Thus, the rules, standards, literature and infrastructure of the entire process of translation program, which starts from admission up to graduation, are likely to be, thoroughly, reconsidered so that they might cater for the needs of the students and the market.

Having taken the mission of being a translation instructor and, later, a program coordinator at (UST), I experienced a handsome number of challenges that both instructors and undergraduate students of translation might had faced.

Two bench-marking universities; Sana’a University (SU) and University of Science and Technology (UST) were chosen to represent Yemeni public and private universities respectively.

Other universities live either similar or even worse conditions.

This means that the outcome of this paper can meet the minimum requirements for setting up a successful translation program.

Moreover, most of the problems discussed and the solutions suggested are applicable to the universities in the region which are living similar conditions bearing in mind the differences between these academic institu-tions.

The problems of the program are so common that instructors and students might have arrived to a consensus about.

The solutions presented by the translation instructors, who have seen more than they have believed in, were seriously demonstrated and discussed.

The ultimate goal of all of these measures taken is to bring transla-tion program to a success.