Translation in the Russian Language Classroom: Coming in from the Cold

Authors

Brian James Baer
Tatyana Bystrova-McIntyre

Keywords

Russian language teaching, translation, interpreting

Abstract

For the past several decades, translation and interpreting have been largely excluded from the communicative language classroom—and not without reason. In traditional foreign language classrooms, “literal” or close translation was often used as a comprehension check or as part of a vocabulary or grammar drill, divorced from real-world context. This in turn encouraged students (and, on some rare occasions, foreign language teachers) to view language proficiency—and, by extension, translation competence—as a kind of linguistic matching game.

Recommended Citation

Baer, Brian James and Bystrova-McIntyre, Tatyana (2021) "Translation in the Russian Language Classroom: Coming in from the Cold," Russian Language Journal: Vol. 71: Iss. 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1314
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol71/iss1/4