There are a lot of translation studies departments operating in different foreign languages in Turkey. It still remains one of the main debates how to apply teaching practices in these departments. Addressing the issue in a more professional and systematic way can shed light on the completed and forthcoming studies in the field. Today, a growing number of corporations and academic units regard quality concept as one of the most significant criteria in their work flow. Likewise, translator education field must be regarded as an important field in which quality management needs to be assured when we take political, economic, cultural and technological aspects of translator education into consideration. In the present study, the factors affecting quality in translator education are initially identified and then their structures and characteristic features are described. After that, the positive and negative sides of these factors are detected and the features which need to be improved are questioned. In this way, this research aims to form a basis for the further studies in translator education.

Research ArticleTranslation & interpreting departments, which continue to function in Turkey for over 35 years, play a significant role in meeting the need for qualified translators & interpreters. The evaluation of both the teaching programs and the academic activities of translation & interpreting departments has a positive effect on increasing the quality of these departments. In this regard, the issue of program evaluation will be examined specifically for translation & interpreting departments in the present study. FEDEK, which carries out the program evaluation and accreditation process of the departments in Science & Arts faculties as an independent institution, constitutes the sample of the research. In this regard, the parameters set by FEDEK for translation and interpreting departments as program evaluation criteria will be examined in the light of the translation studies discipline. In the present study in which document analysis method and comparative analysis method were administrated as research methods, program-specific criteria in FEDEK's program evaluation criteria will be compared and contrasted with the translation competence model of PACTE group, and the study concludes with pedagogical advice focusing on both program evaluation and translator education.

Nowadays, Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools are undoubtedly among indispensable parts of both translation industry and academic translation world. Thanks to the variety of translation memories, machine translation systems, desktop publishing tools, and terminology management applications, the body of translations carried out in a specific time has increased in a considerable amount compared to the situation in past. In this regard, the current inquiry aims at investigating Turkish translation companies' use of CAT tools via examining the websites of 39 translation companies, which are the members of two important national translation providers' associations in Turkey.The results of the existing research are limited to the available information presented in the websites of the aforementioned translation companies about the use of CAT tools. Further studies can shed some light on the issue in a more overarching way if the number of translation companies to be examined is increased and questionnaires are delivered more accessibly, either by paper or online. Besides, this study is an attempt to emphasize that translation companies will have much more work demand from customers if they display information technologies they master on their websites.UDC Classification: 81, DOI: http://dx

Sözlü çeviride kullanılan teknolojik araçların sınıflandırılması / H. İ. Balkul; Ş. Akıncı (391-406. s.

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