TYPES OF EQUIVALENCE USED IN TRANSLATING EDUCATIONAL TERMINOLOGY

The internationalisation of the educational system is a growing trend in the contemporary society, offering mobility opportunities for both teaching staff and students. In this context, mastering the educational terminology in several international languages has become a necessity for anyone active in the field of education. Therefore, all the students, particularly those in translation, should be able to use the educational terminology in the languages they study. The present article proposes a new interdisciplinary method of teaching translation by equivalence, which consists of several activities and focuses on four languages, i.e. Romanian as a source language, English, German and French as target languages. The method was tested on the 2nd year students in Translation and Interpreting at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University of Timișoara (Romania). The purpose of the article is both to show a possible way to teach the concept of equivalence in an interdisciplinary manner, applying it to the translation of educational terminology, and to reveal the linguistic preferences for accommodating existing or new educational phrases, thus drawing the attention to the existing similitudes and differences among languages.