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Paradoxes of Professionalization: Translation Standards – EN 15038 and EN ISO 17100 – From the Perspective of Translator Education Taking the perspective of translator training, the article discusses the significance of translation standards understood as codified documents issued by normalization bodies, focusing on two standards that go beyond local or national settings such as EN 15038 and EN ISO 17100. The emergence of translation standards is situated in a broad context of subject literature on norms in translation. Aspects of standards that have a direct or possible bearing on translator education are discussed. It seems that standards do not necessarily contribute to the present state of the art in translator education research. However, they may enhance a positive perception of translation industry and translators as professionals. Yet, paradoxically, the question remains open whether they indeed contribute to translator empowerment.

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Translator training and translators’ self‑learning. How to take advantage of professionals’ experience to train translators? This paper is aimed to define the translation activity as a range of actions much wider than just language processing. It includes interactions with clients, financial and office management, research, advertising and learning. Learning itself applies to all the translator’s actions, but it also should be seen as a metacognitive mechanism, and a manifestation of the translator’s self‑reflection, which also can be improved. This paper uses the results of a research conducted with translators of Spanish, which proved the existence of self‑learning practices among translators and the utility of self‑learning strategies in their professional life. Thus, the aim of this paper is to consider the methods of training the translation students to use self‑learning strategies.

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