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Thow, Diana – L2 Journal, 2022
This paper considers how an increased awareness of translation in the language classroom might impact the instruction of Comparative Literature, and literary studies more broadly. Despite the arguments for translation's centrality to the study Comparative Literature (Apter, 2006; Bassnett, 2006; Newman 2017) translation pedagogy is still…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literature
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Shook, David J. – Hispania, 1997
Notes that beginning foreign language learner-readers lack linguistic and cultural knowledge assumed in foreign language literary texts, gaps often resulting in possible "mismatches" between the readers' actual cognizance of linguistic and cultural norms and the level of understanding assumed in the foreign text. (40 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Critical Reading, Cultural Awareness, Language Fluency