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Is it OK to use translation in class?

August 10, 2025November 9, 2010 by Luiz Otávio
This post is my answer to an agony letter I received a while ago. The question was “Is teaching through translation a good idea?”

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Categories ELT methodology Tags dilemmas, interlanguage, methodology, translation 13 Comments
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