11.12
Assessment tasks

Choose ONE of the following activities:

EITHER

  1. a) Make a list of the different ways you use translation in your classroom and, with reference to the material in this module, suggest how you might improve their effectiveness.

    b) Illustrate your suggestions by collecting written material featuring different text types and design a range of translation activities for your students, involving work both into and out of the FL.

OR

  1. a) In a translation assessment exercise, do you think students should be allowed to use dictionaries or any other source material? Justify your answer with reference to the material contained in this module.

    b) Are literary texts suitable for translation activities in the language classroom? Why/why not? Justify your answer with some examples, referring to appropriate sections of this module.

OR

  1. Choose one of the activities suggested in section 11.6 and use it on an appropriate language module. You should provide a clear rationale for the task, explaining your methodology, the way the task was structured, how you assessed it, and describe how students reacted and what the end product was like. Include samples of the material used and maybe also examples of students' work.

 


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