Questão 2587285

Texto I

Translation and Language Learning

[...] How could translation be related to language learning? There are at least three abstract models:

1. Translation and language learning are opposites: Superficially, translation and language learning could be opposites. In a world of perfect universal translation services, a citizen in Slovenia, for example, could communicate with all levels of governance in Slovene, have access to all cultural products in Slovene, and perhaps communicate with all non-Slovenes through an automatic translator inserted in one ear. That citizen would have no need to learn any language other than Slovene. Indeed the learning of other languages would only be necessary for the professional translators and interpreters required (the number of whom would nevertheless be considerable). Similarly, in a world of perfect universal language learning, there would be no conceivable need for translation services.

2. Translation and language learning complement each other: Translation is thus required because in fact not everyone learns all languages, and language learning is required, among other reasons, to ensure the availability of translators, there being an insufficient number of 'natural bilinguals' or 'natural translators' to cover the market.

3. Translation is inherent in language learning: In a third kind of relationship, translation would be considered a fifth skill to be practised within the language classroom, alongside reading, listening, speaking and writing in the two languages independently. This view assumes that translation is somehow inherent in the language-learning process itself; that it is a skill that is as fundamental to the bilingual mind as each of the other skills is to monolingual and bilingual minds alike. On this view, translation is a way (or set of ways) of learning a second or foreign language, and not just a way of training professional translators and interpreters.

This third kind of relation is the one that most interests us here. Our task is to locate the ways in which translation may be of use in language learning, and indeed to ask if it can function as an impediment to effective language learning.

(Adapted from: Translation and Language Learning: The role of translation in the teaching of languages in the European Union. A Study. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/258940012_Translation_and_Language_Learning_ The_role_of_translation_in_the_teaching_of_languages_in_the _European_Union_A_Study. Accessed Oct 21 2019.)

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