Unlock the power of English Translation in the Language Classroom Sally Parry IATEFL 2012

Unlock the power of English CONTENT OVERVIEW IDEAS WORKSHOP

Unlock the power of English L1 IN THE CLASSROOM – A SEPARATE ISSUE COMPLETE BAN TEACHING IN L1

Unlock the power of English TRANSLATION4 Once upon a time 4

Unlock the power of English RATIONALE 5 The prevailing orthodoxy –Theories of SLA Teach students to communicate –Think in English - speed

Unlock the power of English - then another one 6Learning a Language

Unlock the power of English BUT ALSO 7 Commercial and practical –Multilingual classes –Native-speaker teachers

Unlock the power of English TRANSLATION8 Once upon a time 4

Unlock the power of English … BUT OUT IN THE FOREST 9 libraryfairy.blogspot.comguardian.co.uk

Unlock the power of English MAYBE…. 10 joelws.com

Unlock the power of English Retrieving the bathwater some of us never threw it out, just hid it the students were drinking it anyway Retrieving the baby Actually helping the students to learn Washing a non-existent baby in an empty metaphorical bath? WHERE ARE WE NOW? 11

Unlock the power of English WHY? 12 Supported by research Use internal grammar machine more efficiently Translation in Language Teaching: – Guy Cook

Unlock the power of English All thought is a form of translation mentalese L2 L1

Unlock the power of English L 2 LEARNING IS MORE LIKE THIS? 14

Unlock the power of English OR EVEN … 15

Unlock the power of English IN THE MODERN WORLD 16 bbc.co.uk Realistic and practical aim ELF Not necessarily slow

Unlock the power of English SOMETIMES … 17 Perhaps its a good idea to slow down? THINKING, FAST AND SLOW »DANIEL KAHNEMAN

Unlock the power of English TWO SYSTEMS 18 SLOW COGNITIVE WORK NOT AUTOMATIC FAST INTUITIVE GUT FEELING SOMETIMES BASED ON FALSE ASSUMPTIONS

Unlock the power of English SUMMARY SO FAR 19 TRANSLATION OFFERS A WAY TO ACCESS Students knowledge of L1 TEACHSkills

Unlock the power of English IMPLICATIONS? 20 Higher status for the learner? Improved status for non-native speaker teachers? Native speaker monoglots had better shape up!

Unlock the power of English WHAT 21 META-LANGUAGE WORDS CHUNKS/COLLOCATIONS IDIOMS SENTENCES (MEANING/FUNCTION/FORM ) QUESTIONS GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS TEXTS

Unlock the power of English META-LANGUAGE PLUS 22 FROM READY FOR IELTS

Unlock the power of English DICTIONARIES 23 BI-LINGUAL AND MONO-LINGUAL EXAMPLE SCREEN …………… TARPAULIN

Unlock the power of English A TEXT – A TASK 24 TBL PROBLEMS –PREVENT AVOIDANCE OF TARGET LANGUAGE –CHOICE OF TEXT –STUDENTS CREATE IN L1 –GIVEN TEXT –E.G. FCE LEAFLET

Unlock the power of English EXAMPLE 25 IELTS TASK ONE –STUDENTS WRITE IN L1 TRANSLATE RESPONSES

Unlock the power of English All thought is a form of translation 26 ? = mentalese L2a L2b L1c L1d

Unlock the power of English EXAMPLE 27

Unlock the power of English IELTS TASK TWO –ACCESS SYSTEM 2 TRANSLATE THE QUESTION = UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION PLAN – TRANSLATE THE QUESTION – NEW PLAN EXAMPLE 28

Unlock the power of English Encouraged wider vocabulary to traduce the question helps you understand it Useful for other students but Translating didnt help him to understand because in order to do the former you have to do the latter RESPONSES 29

Unlock the power of English AN EXPERIMENT 30 TRANSLATION Duff, A. OUP 1989

Unlock the power of English TRANSLATION Duff, A. OUP 1989

Unlock the power of English TRANSLATION Duff, A. OUP 1989

Unlock the power of English A REAL INFORMATION GAP!

Unlock the power of English TO SUMMARISE 34

Unlock the power of English DIFFERENT STUDENTS – DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES TO ENGAGE AND CHALLENGE AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH JUDICIOUS AND TARGETED USE

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Questions Discussion starters Thank you

Unlock the power of English BIBLIOGRAPHY Ready for IELTS »Sam McCarter Macmillan 2010 Translation in Language Teaching »Guy Cook OUP 2010 Thinking, Fast and Slow »Daniel Kahneman Allen Lane 2011 Translation: Resource Books for Teachers »Alan Duff OUP 1990