The paper tackles the issue of the quality of academic didactics of translation in the light of selected linguistic and didactic theories. The author addresses the underdeveloped text segmentation skills of the students (especially regarding syntax and morphology) as one of the most relevant problems in this context. The underdeveloped segmentation skills result from lack of correlation between subjects taught in the courses on contrastive and de scriptive grammar of a foreign language and Polish, and the appropriate translation ex ercises. The paper presents selected examples from German in the areas of syntax and morphology, illustrating the correct segmentation of a text, which makes it possible to recognise the relationships between individual textual elements and, as a result, to un derstand the text and translate it correctly.