TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES

As future teachers, we must keep in mind the importance of role of translation in the language learning acquisition, since when it is used appropriately, it may help students to develop certain skills which will make learning English an effortless experience specially for those students who are at the initial stages of this process or who want to make a living by working as translators since this industry close to reach the 40 billion US in the upcoming years making translation a really promising career. So translation may become a terrific and useful field for both beginners and advanced English learners. However, it is important to remember that we should then ask ourselves some questions to make sure translation is being used well, therefore, we must think of when, how, why is translation suitable in the English learning process in order to achieve the syllabus learning goals. We cannot say translation is either good or bad, this characteristics are given depending o...

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8n3vLS1K0 Luis Felipe Arias’s questions and Harnel Peña’s answers Why did the lecturer meant when he said: “even from the noblest of causes, research can go out and find things we don’t expect to find”? Research allows a set of activities aimed at finding the "why" of something, sometimes exceeding the expectations of what you intend to seek, from this point of view happens the "why" of the teacher's expression. From your personal experience, do you consider translation is being used in Colombia at school the same way it was taught in United States back in the sixties? I think that learning of English in Colombia has been evolving in recent years, although there is still much to be done, I do not think it is using the same methodology as in the United States in the sixties, since all this can start from the approaches of the teachers and the methodologies of the universities, which are i...