A Study of the Relationship between Popular Science Text and Scientific Translation Teaching

This research paper attempts to shed light on the process of teaching scientific translation, which is based on a set of standards and objectives. Thus, the teacher draws up a precise approach through which he pays attention on the diversity and gradation in the difficulty of text models that should be adapted with the level of his/her students. Therefore, we aim, through this study, to demonstrate the essential role of popular science texts in learning scientific translation: they contribute in the refinement of linguistic and stylistic skills of the students. The latter should know that this process is not just transcoding, it is, rather, a re-expression of a given meaning in each language, and that reformulation and style are indispensable in achieving a correct translation.