30.2549, Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.2549, Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:53:15
From: Lucia Pintado [lucia.pintado at dcu.ie]
Subject: The Translation Turn: Current Debates on the Role of Translation in Language Teaching and Learning

 
The Translation Turn: Current Debates on the Role of Translation in Language Teaching and Learning 
Short Title: TLTL 

Date: 09-Sep-2019 - 09-Sep-2019 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Lucia Pintado 
Contact Email: lucia.pintado at dcu.ie 
Meeting URL: https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/tltl-conference 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Translation in language teaching is currently undergoing a process of
reassessment and revival. The increasingly diverse linguistic background of
today’s populations has led to new needs and challenges in the foreign
language classroom, with the mother tongue (L1) and foreign language (L2)
occupying different positions to those they were accorded previously. Thus,
the strict monolingualism in the target language that became dogma in the
latter part of the 20th century has been replaced today by bi-, multi- and
plurilingual approaches. In this context, the reintroduction of translation in
the foreign language classroom needs to take account of a changed and changing
landscape. The inclusion of the notion of mediation as one of the core
language activities in the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages (CEFR 2001, Volume Companion, 2018) has provided further basis for
normalising the use of translation in language teaching. While there is now
wide consensus that translation has an important role to play in language
learning, much work remains to be done on the design and implementation of
mediation and translation-based activities in the language classroom, and in
the language curriculum more broadly.

This conference aims to provide a forum for specialists in the areas of
translation pedagogy, language teaching, education, and professional
translation to exchange ideas and approaches on the role of translation in
language teaching and learning. By engaging with current research and
practices coming from a range of disciplinary areas, we hope to bring in a
fresh critical dimension to the question that might lead to transformation in
the way we view—and operationalise—translation for language learning.

The topics to be discussed will include among others: theoretical and
empirical considerations on the role of translation in second language
acquisition, the notion of mediation and its pedagogical applications,
curricular design at school and higher education level, the multilingual
classroom, audiovisual translation for language learning, and teacher
training.
 






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