Most language students do not aim to pass as monolingual native speakers. They want to become bilingual or multilingual individuals. Real-world bilinguals constantly switch between languages. They translate information daily. Cook argues that classrooms must train students for this exact bilingual reality. 3. Humanizing the Classroom
Title: Translation in Language Teaching Author: Guy Cook Publisher: Oxford University Press ( likely)
: The commercial rise of global language schools required a "one-size-fits-all" teaching model. Monolingual teaching allowed native English speakers with no knowledge of the local language to teach anywhere in the world.
When systematically integrated into modern communicative curriculums, translation offers distinct pedagogical advantages: