Translation in Algeria between Academic Education and Professional Reality: Difficulties and Challenges

Translation in Algeria is a recent field. It has been taught in Algerian universities through many stages, either as an independent specialty or as a ‘module' in other fields. This is due to political and social reasons more than educational ones. Students, after graduation, find themselves facing a very choking reality represented in a gap between studies and labor market. Throughout this study, we looked for the reasons after that gap between academic and professional translation; then, we suggested some methods to find a balance between them. This study resulted, prominently, in the necessity to reconsider the curricula in line with the specificities of each region and its economic structures so that the university does not remain far from the labor market, besides valuing the efforts of researchers as well as the recommendations of colloquiums and conferences so as not to just remain words on paper.