FUNDAMENTALS OF PEDAGOGICAL TRANSLATION: TRANSLATION, PEDAGOGY AND COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The integration of pedagogical translation in the foreign language classroom became relevant due to a large revisionism in both Translation Studies and in Foreign Language Teaching. This triggered a conciliation between both fields which would lead to the recognition and increasing development of this area. Reconsidering the situation and  recognizing  a  network  of  common  interests  between  translation  and  language teaching were key: the purpose of translation in the language classroom is utterly im- portant as a special form of language which is essentially communicative (and which also enables the acquisition of communicative competence in a foreign language). This is why pedagogical translation finds its status quo in the language curriculum under the umbrella of a communicative and a dynamic paradigm in which teaching reassess important pragmatic and theoretical aspects.