TEACHING TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENTS : PROCESS APPROACH VS TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO TRANSLATION

ISBN-13: 9783639052275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.

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Opis

This PhD. study was conducted to explore the status §of translation courses at the ELT departments of §Education Faculties in Turkey. The study aimed to §develop a syllabus for teaching translation in §accordance with the findings. For this purpose, two §groups were formed: One experimental and one §control. The experimental group received education §through process approach, and the control group §through traditional approach to translation. Both §groups took one pre-test and one post-test. The pre-§ and post-test results indicated that the §experimental group was more succesful in their final §translation products. Their success was further §confirmed by the questionnaire results in which the §students expressed their views about the approaches §to translation.The students stated that the process §approach contributed a lot to their ability to §translate.

O autorze

He graduated from The English Language and Literature Department
of Ankara University, Turkey in 1984. Since then he has been
teaching
English at the English Language Teaching Department of The
Faculty of Education,Çukurova University. He is
interested in translation, grammar, and literature and completed
his PhD in 2002.