: Have students create captions for short video clips.
Translation as a creative act, not a one-to-one substitution. Procedure:
Title: Translation in Language Teaching Author: Guy Cook Publisher: Oxford University Press ( likely)
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For over a century, translation has been the "pariah" of language teaching. We’ve been told that using a student's first language (L1) is a crutch that slows down progress. But Guy Cook, a leader in applied linguistics, argues the opposite: