Tsagari Dina, Floros Georgios. Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 257 p. — ISBN10: 1-4438-5044-6, ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5044-5.The aim of this volume is to record the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the various contemporary ways in which translation is used in the fields of Language Teaching and Assessment. It examines the possibilities and limitations of the interplay between the two disciplines in attempting to investigate the degree to which recent calls for reinstating translation in language learning have borne fruit. The volume accommodates high-quality original submissions that address a variety of issues from a theoretical as well as an empirical point of view. The chapters of the volume raise important questions and demonstrate the beginning of a new era of conscious epistemological traffic between the two aforementioned disciplines. The contributors to the volume are academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of Translation Studies and Language Teaching and Assessment from various countries and educational contexts, including the USA, Canada, Taiwan R.O.C., and European countries such as Belgium, Germany, Greece, Slovenia and Sweden, and various professional and instructional settings, such as school sector and graduate, undergraduate and certificate programs. The contributions approach the interplay between the two disciplines from various angles, including functional approaches to translation, contemporary types of translation, and the discursive interaction between teachers and students.Dina Tsagari and Georgios Floros. Preface
Translation in Language Teaching
Tzu-yi Lee. Incorporating Translation into the Language Classroom and its Potential Impacts upon L2 Learners
Melita Koletnik Korošec. Teaching Grammar through Translation
Ana Ibáñez Moreno and Anna Vermeulen. Audio Description as a Tool to Improve Lexical and Phraseological Competence in Foreign Language Learning
Flavia Belpoliti and Amira Plascencia-Vela. Translation Techniques in the Spanish for Heritage Learners’ Classroom: Promoting Lexical Development
Christine Calfoglou. An Optimality Translation Proposal for the Foreign Language Class
Marie Källkvist. The Engaging Nature of Translation: A Nexus Analysis of Student-Teacher Interaction
Silva Bratož and Alenka Kocbek. Resurrecting Translation in SLT: A Focus on Young Learners
Raphaëlle Beecroft. From Intercultural Speaker to Intercultural Writer: Towards a New Understanding of Translation in Foreign Language Teaching
Anna Kokkinidou and Kyriaki Spanou. The Didactic Use of Translation in Foreign Language Teaching: A Practical Example
Translation and Language Assessment
Samira ElAtia. Test Adaptation and Translation: The Language Dimension
Sultan Turkan, Maria Elena Oliveri and Julio Cabrera. Using Translation as a Test Accommodation with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Youyi Sun and Liying Cheng. Assessing Second/Foreign Language Competence using Translation: The Case of the College English Test in China