El uso de la traducción como recurso pedagógico en la enseñanza del español lengua de los negocios y la economía (ENE): una experiencia didáctica con estudiantes universitarios italófonos

In this paperwe aimto investigate the potential of translation as a pedagogical tool in the field of Spanish language teaching, with particular reference to business Spanish taught to Italian-speaking university students. For many decades, translation as a teaching technique has been hampered by the fact that it was not in line with the communicative approach that has long characterised language teaching. Following the publication of the CompanionVolume (2020) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages, the concept of translation as a pedagogical tool has come back into focus. In particular, our aim is to examine the extent to which translation can contribute to the process of learning Spanish as a foreign language by addressing aspecialised area, namely businessSpanish. We will present the results of an experiment carried out with students of the university degree in ‘Commercio estero e Turismo’ atCa' Foscari University of Venice, in order to observe what difficulties they haveencountered when carrying out translation tasks for pedagogical purposes between two cognatelanguages (Spanish-Italian). In this way, we will be able to dwell uponthe efficacy of translation as apedagogical tool in the field of business Spanish.