Towards User-centred Information Literacy Instruction in Translation

Abstract

This paper is part of a broader research project currently in progress, the main goal of which is to provide translators and interpreters with a solid grounding in information literacy. To this end, the broader project attempts to describe students’ conceptions of information needs, search and use (that is, their information behaviour), and also the views of both the community of translator trainers and the community of professional translators and interpreters. The results analyzed here provide the view of trainers, by means of a qualitative case study (using a semi-structured questionnaire for data gathering). They highlight the strengths and weaknesses indicated by the translator trainers regarding students’ actual information competences and the importance of each in their overall training needs. It is hoped that these results, when fully complemented with the views of students and the profession, will provide a more sound, more empirically-grounded basis on which to build efficient syllabuses, and teaching and learning practices for information literacy in translator training.

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