Intercultural competence is really important in language teaching nowadays since it is closely related to the learners’ need for successful intercultural communication. Translation is closely related with TL and SL cultures and translation teaching provides students the solutions to the translation of cultural terms, thus minimizing translation loss, preserving the cultural element in translation, mediating between cultures and facilitating intercultural communication. The paper tackles the issue of intercultural competence and also the techniques of translating culture-bound terms: transference, componential analysis, domestication, foreignization, rationalization, expansion, clarification. It also provides some examples from the translation of literature from English into Albanian. While making the decision which methods to choose, the best criterion is considering the readership’s source-culture knowledge. Considering the nature of the text and the similarities between the ideal ST and TT reader, is another important aspect is to determine how much missing background information should be provided by the translator using these methods.

Intercultural competence is really important in language teaching nowadays since it is closely related to the learners’ need for successful intercultural communication. Translation is closely related with TL and SL cultures and translation teaching provides students the solutions to the translation of cultural terms, thus minimizing translation loss, preserving the cultural element in translation, mediating between cultures and facilitating intercultural communication. The paper tackles the issue of intercultural competence and also the techniques of translating culture-bound terms: transference, componential analysis, domestication, foreignization, rationalization, expansion, clarification. It also provides some examples from the translation of literature from English into Albanian. While making the decision which methods to choose, the best criterion is considering the readership’s source-culture knowledge. Considering the nature of the text and the similarities between the ideal ST and TT reader, is another important aspect is to determine how much missing background information should be provided by the translator using these methods.