Translation Teaching: In the Past and Present

The development of technology that allows free access to machine translation makes translation work becomes easier and faster. So far, however, there seems to be little discussion about a possible need for changes in translator training necessitated by these developments. Teachers are always following the traditional pattern in which the methods and process of teaching translation are often overlooked. This paper is aimed at analyzing the shift in teaching translation in the past and present as it is caused by the current phenomena of free machine generated translator. This paper clarifies the shift by library study on recent journals and books relevant to the phenomena.