La traducción como una estrategia didáctica para la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera

Abstract

With the advances of didactics of the Teaching of Languages, and of Didactics of Translation, it a mutual articulation was possible among areas of studies, which brought about the reuse of translation in class, regarding its potentials as a didactic tool for the teaching/learning of a FL. In this article, we are going to reflect on the use of translation as a didactic strategy for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. In order to do so, we consider the theoretical background defended by Costa (1988), Atkinson (1987), Lavault (1986), Hurtado Albir (1994), Romanelli (2009), Pontes (2014) and Widdowson (1991), about the use of translation in a communicative context of language teaching. Its goal is to stimulate a reflection on the importance of considering the issue of translation in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.