English language classrooms, even outside of English-speaking countries, are becoming increasingly multilingual, and many language teachers may be unsure of how to best cater to these more mixed groups of learners. This article highlights students’ and teachers’ experiences of multilingualism in their ELT classrooms, and strategies for utilizing linguistic and cultural diversity to benefit language learning.
This study comes out of Trier University where translation is one means by which the students are taught English. The teachers there believe in the value of translation as a means of learning languages. In particular, the type of instruction is referred to as CAT – Contrastive Analysis and Translation. This paper investigates the effect of translation classes on students’ grammatical accuracy.
This study indicates that translation can help to improve learners’ accuracy in a foreign language, as one of many tools of language teaching.
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