The importance of translation -- The importance of prose translation -- Can translation be taught? -- Teaching professional prose translation -- Translation (theory) -- Translating (process) -- A translation (text) -- Ideal translator communicative competence -- Student translator communicative competence -- The teaching context -- Achieving objectives -- Words in context -- Sentences in context -- Deverbalization -- Restricted codes and transcoding -- Cohesion and coherence -- Appendix: Selected structural contrasts and guided bibliography.