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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Laviosa, Sara

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• The interpreter and translator trainer, 2014-01, Vol.8 (1), p.1-7

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The reappraisal of translation as a legitimate and effective tool for learning, teaching and assessing foreign languages can be traced back to the late 1980s, at least in the English-speaking world. It was around that time that Alan Duff published the Duke of Edinburgh Award-winning volume Translation (1989). In this resource book, which is aimed mainly at language teachers, translation is advocated as a useful activity for language practice and improvement. Pedagogic translation is now rapidly becoming a thriving area of study in applied linguistics. The aim of this introduction to the present collection of papers is to outline some of the main reasons for re-admitting translation in the language classroom and to highlight the importance of elaborating translation-based pedagogies that are conceived within interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and properly investigated through primary research carried out in the international language classroom. Adapted from the source document