| Since the days of the Grammar and Translation Method (GTM), the use of translation as a teaching tool has been rejected on the grounds that the interference of the mother tongue would damage the learning of a foreign language (FL). As a result, MGT was abandoned, and various methods were created that preached intensive use of the foreign language, some of which are still used nowadays. Even so, scholars in the field have tried to use translation to incorporate it into the main methods of Foreign Language Teaching without having to replace them or go back to what MGT was. It was concluded, among other things, that the problem with mother-tongue interference is not the translation itself but the way in which this tool is used in the classroom. Given the problem mentioned above, this paper aims to clarify the fundamental role of translation in Foreign Language Teaching. |
