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Translating literature and learning culture.(teaching English as a foreign language in Japan)
Abstract
In teaching English as a foreign language at college and university level, translation of literature in the native language of students into English provides unique learning opportunities beyond the extraordinary engagement with the two languages themselves. The literature can provide students with opportunities to widen and deepen their understanding and appreciation of their own culture and to extend that sensitivity on a global scale to other peoples and their cultures.
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Teaching English literature in students' native language turns on its head the customary approach of students' learning the cultures of English-speaking ...
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