In line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Modern Languages Learning by Translating has been conceived as a resource and a pedagogic tool for the acquisition of communicative language competences through real life written receptive and mediating communicative activities, from B1 up to C2 level. With particular reference to the translation task itself the present volume endeavours to provide teachers of English and translator trainers with a methodology for guiding their students in producing, to the best of their abilities, a translation which is not only accurate, consistent, and complete, but also effective in terms of the communicative situation it is intended for.