DOES THE USE OF TRANSLATION IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH CAN HELP COMMUNICATION?

Página1 DOES THE USE OF TRANSLATION IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH CAN HELP COMMUNICATION? By Juan Mauricio Giraldo Medina (MATEFL, Fundacion Universitaria Iberoamericana – FUNIBER ) Profesional en Estudios Literarios – Universidad Nacional de Colombia English... More

Página1 DOES THE USE OF TRANSLATION IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH CAN HELP COMMUNICATION? By Juan Mauricio Giraldo Medina (MATEFL, Fundacion Universitaria Iberoamericana – FUNIBER ) Profesional en Estudios Literarios – Universidad Nacional de Colombia English Teacher I. E. D. Alonso de Olalla, Villeta Cundinamarca Jotaeme666@gmail. com The acknowledgment of the complexities of learning brought about by insides on language, applied linguistic and cognitive psychology have lead to current communicative approaches on English teaching/learning that have as a main goal the development of the skills needed to become a good user of English. These approaches allow the use of translation and have more moderated views about it that the strong forms of communicative approaches in the 70’s and 80’s for whom translation impeded the development of communicative skills. On the contrary, today´s current communicative approaches see translation as a valid L2 learning tool from which learners and teache Less