Translation In Language Teaching Guy Cook Pdf May 2026

1. Executive Summary: Why This Book Matters For decades, the Grammar-Translation Method was the villain of applied linguistics. From the rise of the Direct Method in the 1900s to the dominance of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the 1980s and 90s, translation was banned from the classroom. It was seen as unnatural, interference-causing, and a crutch.