Translation can help improve foreign language teaching and learning ¿ this study shows how. In
an increasingly globalised world and in an increasingly multilingual Europe translation plays
an important role. Significant signs of a new revival of translation in language teaching have
become visible as shown by recent literature on applied linguistics. This book contributes to
this movement embracing both a theoretical and an empirical purpose by integrating viewpoints
from Applied Linguistics Translation Studies and Second Language Acquisition. In an attempt to
show how the use of translation in foreign language classes can help enhance and further
improve reading writing speaking and listening skills this work calls for a re-evaluation
and a rehabilitation of the translation activities in the foreign language classes.
