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References

Baker, M. (ed.) (2001) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, London, Routledge. 
Language Policy Unit, Council of Europe (2002) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment [Online]. Available at  http://www.coe.int/ t/ dg4/ linguistic/ source/ framework_en.pdf [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (Accessed 29 March 2017).
Newmark, P. (1981) Approaches to Translation, Oxford, Pergamon.
PACTE (2003) ‘Building a translation competence model’, in Alves, F. (ed.) Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in Process Oriented Research, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp. 43–66.
Routes into languages (2015) What is Translating? [Online]. Available at http://www.nationalnetworkfortranslation.ac.uk/ (Accessed 29 March 2017).
Samuelsson-Brown, G. (2010) A Practical Guide for Translators, 5th edn, Bristol, Multilingual Matters.
For some additional insight into the importance of professional translation work, and the mistakes that can happen without proper preparation, see the anecdotes at this link: https://www.languagealliance.com/ resources/ translations-with-major-consequences/