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A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 409–414

Chapter 7.1
Language learning

Keywords: pedagogic translation, communicative competence, TESOL, mediation, multilingualism
Article outline
  • 1.In the last two hundred years
  • 2.From the early 1920s to today
  • References
  • Further readings
Published online: 28 June 2018
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Further readings

Cook, Guy
2010 Translation in Language Teaching: An Argument for Reassessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Laviosa, Sara
2014a Translation and Language Education: Pedagogic Approaches Explored. London/New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
(ed.) 2014b  Translation in the Language Classroom: Theory, Research and Practice . Special Issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, [e-journal] 8 (1). Available at: [URL] Accessed [URL].Google Scholar
Pym, Anthony, Kirsten Malmkjaer, and Maria Del Mar Guttíerez-Colón Plana
2013 Translation and Language Learning: The Role of Translation in the Teaching of Languages in the European Union. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. Available at: [URL]. Accessed 15.12.2016.Google Scholar
Tsagari, Dina, and Georgios Floros
(eds) 2013 Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Google Scholar