Translation

From my point of view, translation does have a place in the classroom and its implementation can be beneficial for second or foreign language learners. Besides, as Stoddart (2000) puts it, students do, and always will, translate into their L1, no matter how often we ask them not to - Atkinson (in Harbord, 1992) calls it a "learner-preferred strategy . . . and an inevitable part of second language acquisition". Perhaps we should stop working against this tendency and turn it to our advantage in the classroom. Go on reading this book....