Stephanie Caballero's Essay - Task 2

Translation as a tool to improve EFL learners’ skills

“Leonardi (2010), translation enhances critical reading skills, improves grammatical awareness and language proficiency, facilitates vocabulary acquisition, and develops intercultural competence”.

In today’s world turns indispensable learn a second language, likely because we live in a globalized society and when you decide to acquire another language this one will help you or give you a greater global understanding of the world. Consequently, translation plays a key role an increasingly advanced world. For all these reasons, learners of a foreign language are utterly frustrated to master all the skills that any language has (writing, reading, speaking and listening) due to the fact they know that a new language opens up a world of new opportunities. Which is tricky, however, nobody said it was easy.

As mentioned above, translation can be used as a tool to enhance English as a Foreign Language learners’ skills if and when teachers and students know how to apply and use it in the process of teaching and learning. It is not a secret that translation brings many benefits to students in the classroom but at the same time translation does not help learners develop their communication skills, perhaps because translation is a difficult skill which must be done well in order to be productive and rewarding. that is why, learners and teachers not only have to take into account meaning but also a range of other issues, including form, register, style, and idiom. This is not easy, but too many translation activities depend on it being done well.

To sum up, nowadays teachers should design and create active classes due to translation requires a motivated class, besides translation is a real-life and increasingly necessary in a global environment. Many learners living in either their own countries or a new one need to translate language on a daily basis, both informally and formally. Stuff like these make translation essential learning any another language.

By: Stephanie Caballero M.