Most public and university libraries can obtain a digital scan of the book (or specific chapters) via ILL. This is free or low-cost.
“Did I?” Marco handed her a quiz from the end of the class. Every student had correctly formed the pluperfect subjunctive. “They learned faster, because they stopped fearing the gap between languages. They used translation as a noticing tool, not a crutch.”
You can find research papers that discuss Cook's theories and provide "full-text" summaries of his work on platforms like CORE and ResearchGate .
"The use of translation in language teaching has a long and varied history. For much of this time, it was a central activity in language learning, but in recent years, its role has been largely eclipsed by other approaches. This book aims to redress the balance by exploring the potential of translation to enhance language learning and to examine its theoretical underpinnings. By 'translation', I mean not just the process of rendering text from one language into another, but also the wider cognitive and communicative activities involved in understanding and producing texts in different languages."
