Translation in ESL Classes

• Authors: Imola Katalin Nagy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

language teaching; method; translation; communicative and post-communicative language classes

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 87-107

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Imola Katalin Nagy

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ausp-2015-0057