The Impact of Translation Strategies on Second Language Writing

This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of translation strategies as informed by Translation Studies in foreign language (FL) classroom. The current study aims map how translation, perceived Studies, can be beneficial for students’ writing skills FL It focuses on undergraduate students three French Composition classes: a control class fall 2014, second 2015, and an experimental spring 2016, explores latter improved after being exposed strategies, such explicitation, amplification, modulation, approaches, Skopos theory. To determine whether enable improve naturalness L2 writing, their compositions summaries were error coded using Kobayashi/Rinnert’s (1992) method awkward form wrong lexical choice, McCarthy’s collocation search, Owen’s (1988) native speaker input. Statistical analyses also performed. Results show that are useful tool help understand write more naturally.