Foreign Language Education and the Environment. Considerations from the Perspective of Translation Studies

Having been a teacher to foreign language students and as a current trainer totranslators, I can see how important it is to make connections between reality andformal education when preparing professionals to enter the job market once (or evenbefore) their training is completed. Assuming, on one hand, that ecology is a dominantscience in today’s world with a far-reaching and powerful impact on humanity, and onthe other hand, that I have before me in class a generation of future teachers andtranslators with an environmental consciousness that needs to be raised, it is mypurpose in the following pages to give insights into language specialists’ (SLA andtranslators) training and how it relates to the environment.