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The present paper focuses on the role of translation in Business English teaching from a pedagogical perspective including both translation from L1 into L2 and vice versa. A basic premise of this article is that translation cannot be avoided in language acquisition and it should not be viewed as a negative interference but as a natural and useful tool in language learning. Translation is still regarded as some kind of mechanical linguistic transfer of meaning from one language to another and it is not included in those language skills normally covered by language courses. This paper argues that translation could prove to be a very useful tool to learn grammar, syntax, lexis and culture-related issues in both the source language (SL) and the target language (TL). Teaching a foreign language means teaching how that language is used in a variety of contexts. This is especially true of ESP which should not be thought of as a different kind of language but rather as a different approach to language learning. The present paper aims to provide the ESP teacher with an overview of translation as a perfect tool to teach Business English. Translation is a good pedagogical tool to use in Business English teaching because there are not always exact equivalents between English and other languages. While translating, students are encouraged to notice differences in structures and vocabulary and they have to develop methods and strategies to deal

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In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in the issue of gender in translation practice especially thanks to the work of feminist critics and translators who see the act of translating as an activity which involves making use not of speciously neutral, so-called objective strategies, but rather dynamic procedures and tactics which negotiate and are negotiable, open and contingent, and which never assume feminine subjectivity to be an absolute and stable category. Drawing on such premises, this work will focus on the interrelation between identity, textuality and translation in an attempt to explore the idea that gender representation in translation practice may be shaped by the translator' s identity and this can be partly detected through their strategies. Specifically, we will show the role these factors play through the analysis of two case-studies, that is 1) the feminist (unpublished) translation of Mark Haddon' s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by María Reimón-dez and its final (published) translation into Galician with additional comparisons in Spanish and Italian, and 2) the two Italian translations of Woolf' s Orlando (1928), carried out respectively by a woman and then by a man. In both cases, translation strategies will be discussed in an attempt to unveil the ideological reading of translation and to raise translators' awareness of gender constructs in textuality. ResumenEn los últimos años se ha visto incrementado el interés por el tema del género en la práctica de la traducción. Ello se debe a la intensa labor de críticos feministas y traductores que conciben el acto de traducción como una actividad que no implica el uso de estrategias aparentemente neutrales y comúnmente definidas objetivas, sino que emplea tácticas y procedimientos bastante dinámicos que negocian y son negociables, abiertos, contingentes; además, opinan que la sujetividad femenina no pueda considerarse una categoría estable y absoluta. Basándose en estas premisas, este trabajo enfocará la interrelación entre identidad, textualidad y traducción a fin de intentar explorar la idea de que la representación del género en la práctica de la traducción puede ser determinada por la identidad del traductor y que ésta puede a su vez detectarse parcialmente a partir de sus estrategias. Se hará específicamente hincapié en el papel desempeñado por estos factores a partir del análisis de dos casos de estudio, es decir 1) la traducción feminista (inédita) de la obra de Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, realizada por María Reimóndez, y la traducción final al gallego (publicada) con comparaciones adicionales en español e italiano; 2) las dos traducciones al italiano de la novela de Woolf Orlando (1928), realizadas respectivamente por una mujer y un hombre. En ambos casos se discutirán las estrategias de traducción con vistas a desvelar la lectura ideológica de la traducción y aumentar la conciencia de los traductores respecto a los constructos de género en la textualidad.

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