DOES PEDAGOGIC TRANSLATION PROMOTE LINGUISTISC AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE?

<p>In today’s world, globalized more than ever, intercultural understanding has become the bedrock of peaceful and successful communication across borders and a crucial element of language education. Translation activities naturally combine language ability and cultural awareness. This paper investigates whether Moroccan EFL teachers in the CPGE (Preparatory Classes for Engineering and Management Schools) believe that pedagogic translation fosters intercultural awareness among their students. To that end, this paper draws on both theoretical background and quantitative data collected from CPGE teachers. The review of literature provided in this paper provides theoretical evidence to believe that pedagogic translation enhances cultural understanding. However, the statistical data collected from the teachers does not consolidate those beliefs. This paper concludes that even though pedagogic translation has been advocated in major theoretical studies as a promoter of intercultural understanding, the results from the CPGE teachers in this study do not support that assumption.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0175/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>