One objection to interlinear translations is that it encourages other-language learners to translate when trying to use/learn the target language, to wit, best to think in the target language, not your native tongue. What to do? not use interlinear translations as one of your tools to comprehend/acquire the foreign language? I think not, with an exception or two. No one (of the rest of us) suggests reading whole books that have been translated and displayed in interlinear form. At least no language teacher should promote this. [objection coming soon] The object of learning is to take what you don't know perfectly and work with it until you do. This translates into bite-sized bits, or bytes if you prefer. Which suggests offering what I and others more proficient than I do, provide language-learner friendly EN-to-EN translations. This is not interlinear but the intermediary step between being lost or almost lost in the target language to seeing in simpler target language what was los...
alternative displays for translations--meaning-mapping, reference, text analysis, language learning...