PDF #44 – Barbora Kratochvilova – Use of Translation in Teaching English as a Second Language
This thesis deals with the issues of using translation in second language teaching. The question of translation in language teaching (TILT) has been a very problematic one, as the recent teaching theories mostly support monolingual teaching and the use of translation is considered a breaking of rules and possibly even the teacher‟s fault. However, this does not mean that translation is not being used in foreign language classrooms anymore. Even though it has been outlawed from language teaching in theory, translation remains widely used in practice. The aim of this thesis is to try to show that there is a lack of sufficient evidence for the abandoning of translation and that the question of its use might need to be reviewed by language teachers and researchers.