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This study aims to explore the possibility of using translation logs as an effective means to facilitate a two-way communication between instructors and translation trainees, who aspire to become professional translators, in the process-centered learning environment. Translation logs herein refer to a written record of problems and inquiries that occur during the translation process, solutions for those problems, and the reasoning behind the decisions made by trainees. To this end, this study presents a case where the author used translation logs as a tool to make up for shortcomings of written feedback provided by teachers on students’ assignments. It also demonstrates the possibility that translation logs enable instructors to give trainees individually-tailored feedback and also facilitate an interactive communication between instructor and student. In order to prove educational implications of the use of translation logs, this study analyzed the written reports submitted by student translators by dividing their entries into five categories.