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  2. Toledo School of Translators - Wikipedia

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    The Toledo School of Translators (Spanish: Escuela de Traductores de Toledo) is the group of scholars who worked together in the city of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, to translate many of the Islamic philosophy and scientific works from Classical Arabic into Medieval Latin.

  3. Katharina Reiss - Wikipedia

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    Katharina Reiss (17 April 1923 – 16 April 2018) was a German linguist and translation scholar. Her works are important in the field of translation studies. She is widely seen as a co-founder of the Skopos theory. [1] [2]

  4. Brian Harris (translation researcher) - Wikipedia

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    Natural translation is Harris' most important contribution to translation studies. [ citation needed ] In the early 1970s he began to notice that while he was supposedly teaching university students to translate, many people were doing translation successfully without such training; indeed that the untrained translators were doing more ...

  5. Recess (break) - Wikipedia

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    Netherlands, 1934 Sweden, 2006 Vietnam, 2014. Recess is a general term for a period in which a group of people are temporarily dismissed from their duties.. In education, recess is the American and Australian term (known as break or playtime in the UK), where students have a mid morning snack and play before having lunch after a few more lessons.

  6. Grammar–translation method - Wikipedia

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    The grammar–translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching Ancient Greek and Latin. In grammar–translation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.

  7. Talk:Recess (break) - Wikipedia

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    I contributed a few sentences about the importance of problem solving in a child's social-emotional development and how free play helps to foster those skills. Problem solving is an integral part of child development and recess or free play gives the students and the teacher an opportunity to gain those skills in a comfortable, casual setting.

  8. Language education - Wikipedia

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    This tends to make the research of second-language acquisition emotionally charged. Older methods and approaches such as the grammar translation method and the direct method may be dismissed and even ridiculed, as newer methods and approaches are invented and promoted as solutions to the problem of the high failure rates of foreign language ...

  9. Skopos theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory first appeared in an article published by linguist Hans Josef Vermeer in the German Journal Lebende Sprachen, 1978. [2]As a realisation of James Holmes’ map of Translation Studies (1972), [3] [4] skopos theory is the core of the four approaches of German functionalist translation theory [5] that emerged around the late twentieth century.