A Collaborative Approach to the Teaching of Terminology Management

Abstract

In this article, we aim at presenting a basic collaborative didactic proposal for the integration of terminology skills into the training of professional translators, focusing on a project-oriented and concept-system-based approach to translation-oriented terminography. To do so, we will first identify and define the main concepts from the discipline of terminology. Secondly, we will highlight the main elements of the important relationship between terminology, specialized communication, and specialized translation. Thirdly, we will specifically focus on the concept "concept" to introduce the notion of "concept system." Finally, we will build on the idea of a concept system to introduce a knowledge-oriented, collaborative approach to the teaching of terminology and terminology management within translator training programs.