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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Translation course

I'm giving my undergrad translation course again. It's interesting that recent developments in SLA bolster my insight that a course that asks students to use their capabilities in English could be useful. The model of immersion, trying to get students to approximate the status of a monolingual speaker of the second language. Sure, it would be great if all our students sounded like native speakers, but you wouldn't expect a PanameƱan to sound like an Argentine, or a Brit to sound like a Yank or an Aussie.

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