Liliana Calderon's Essay - Task 2

The pedagogical strategies for effectively fulfilling the task of teaching a foreign language have been diverse. The techniques of translation have been throughout the teaching of foreign languages ​​a much mentioned theme, for this reason, the importance of choosing good pedagogical strategies that contribute to the good learning of the foreign languages.

Although there are few documented sources that point to translation as an aid to teaching and learning a language other than the mother tongue, some authors comment that the use of these translation strategies should not be used in the formative processes since they consider they can return to the dependent learner And thus end up with important grammatical schemes in the foreign language; In this regard, author Duff (1989) states that it has been shown that if they are properly designed, translation activities can be used to improve the four skills that correspond to listening, speaking, reading and writing. Develop precision, clarity and flexibility in students who learn it; and also that the bi-directionality of language competences must be taken into account simultaneously, referring to the capacity to be developed to communicate from and within the language system.

It is important, from this point of view, to recognize the importance of translation in the teaching - learning processes of a foreign language, using it as a pedagogical strategy that contributes to the improvement and cognitive development of students and improves their capacities in an integral way, Advancing in this way in the learning of the language.

By: Liliana Saray Calderón