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Translation as a Teaching Tool in EFL Classes at the University Level

The current research aims at studying students’ attitudes towards the instructors’ use oftranslation in EFL classes at university level. It hypothesizes that students have a positiveattitude towards instructors’ use of such a means. The research is limited to a sample of47 male and female 2nd year students at the department of English language, college ofLanguages, Nawroz University during the academic year 2020-2021. To study thesample’s attitudes, a questionnaire that subsumes (20) relevant items has been designedand administered to the sample of students. The results show that students have positiveattitudes towards their instructors use of translation in English as a Foreign language (EFL)classes at university level. In the light of such results, some recommendations have beenput forward.