Classroom activities to promote such language transfer skills include the following: (1) pairing students to summarize, for each other, articles in different languages about the same topic (2) simulated interpreting situations and (3) having students predict the difficulty of translating a variety of text types, then translate them and discuss their actual difficulty levels. Communicative language teaching theory recognizes the importance of learning to handle foreign language internal transfer. Translation is a real-life communication skill that should be incorporated into second language instruction.
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