Payne, Matt and Juan Pablo Contreras. 2019.

"Ecuadorian Students' Perception on the

Use of Translation in the EFL Classroom." Studies in English Language and Education,
6(1): 61-70.
- The use of translations into the mother tongue (L1) is considered positive by students
at the beginning levels and detrimental by students at higher levels.
- Teaching in L1 classrooms in the form of translations is not an impediment to learning
a second language (L2).
- Learners do not see the use of translations in the classroom as something negative,
with the exception of people with more purist thoughts.
- The research seeks to understand the learner's perspective on translation in the
English language classroom.
- The quantitative-qualitative research study analyzed two groups: A1 (first level, basic
L2 English learners), B1 (intermediate L2 learners) and B1 (intermediate L2 learners).
- Learning through translation promotes cognitive awareness of some grammatical
elements.
- In learning several L2 languages, translation into L1 is not practical because it is anti-
didactic.
- Adults have brain learning patterns that are compatible with translation, due to the
concepts they already have in them.
- You learn a language by knowing it, because without knowing it you would not be
able to think about it.
- Comparisons and grammatical structures between L1 and L2 are better understood
with L1 translation.
- The survey conducted in this study took into account various areas of translation used
by the teachers and how the students feel about these situations.
- The conditions for the survey were: Being at A1 (Basic) and B1 (Intermediate) levels,
Being 18 years old, Studying English regularly.
- The surveys were given to 115 students (62 A1 level and 53 B1 level).
- Most of the A1 students prefer the use of L1 to understand English.
- At the basic level, L1 translation is practically unavoidable.
- This research is very interesting to know the opinion of the students, this feedback
allows a learning from the sender, which will allow to achieve a better message and
positive results progressively.