<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The problem of translation in foreign language classes cannot be dealt with unless we attempt to make an overview of what translation meant for language teaching in different periods of language pedagogy. From the translation-oriented grammar-translation method through the complete ban on translation and mother tongue during the times of the audio-lingual approaches, we have come today to reconsider the role and status of translation in ESL classes. This article attempts to advocate for translation as a useful ESL class activity, which can completely fulfil the requirements of communicativeness. We also attempt to identify some activities and games, which rely on translation in some books published in the 1990s and the 2000s.</p></abstract>

The problem of translation in foreign language classes cannot be dealt with unless we attempt to make an overview of what translation meant for language teaching in different periods of language pedagogy. From the translation-oriented grammar-translation method through the complete ban on translation and mother tongue during the times of the audio-lingual approaches, we have come today to reconsider the role and status of translation in ESL classes. This article attempts to advocate for translation as a useful ESL class activity, which can completely fulfil the requirements of communicativeness. We also attempt to identify some activities and games, which rely on translation in some books published in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Translation in ESL Classes

Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Teclmical and Human Sciences, Târgu Mureş Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The problem of translation in foreign language classes cannot be dealt with unless we attempt to make an overview of what translation meant for language...

Translation in ESL Classes

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 87 - 107

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0057

Mots clés
language teaching, method, translation, communicative and post-communicative language classes

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Translation in ESL Classes

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 87 - 107

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0057

Mots cléslanguage teaching, method, translation, communicative and post-communicative language classes

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
language teaching, method, translation, communicative and post-communicative language classes