A Survey on the Attitudes of Students Majoring in English Language towards the Teaching Methods in Translation Courses

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mohammad Iman Askari ¹ , Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour ² , Roxana Aminzadeh ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Language Teaching, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Teaching, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Teaching, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2019-11-10 Accepted : 2019-11-10 Published : 2019-07-01

Keywords: Methods of teaching translation, Translation courses, English-major students,

Abstract :

As a subset of descriptive studies, the current research focused on learners’ perception of the common teaching methods in translation courses. Accordingly, a multi-item Likert-scale questionnaire with 29 items was developed based on the proposed strategies applied in the three traditional, complex and modern methods of teaching for collecting the research data. Cronbach’s alpha was administered for estimating the reliability of the items. Besides, experts’ judgment and factor analysis were used for the coverage and relevance of content and construct validity. After administering the questionnaire among 100 homogenized participants, the answers were processed into numbers and applied in the final data analysis and reported. In conclusion, although all the methods were common in the educational context, the modern methods resolved the challenges which existed in previous methods and put emphasis on the necessity to provide a combined approach towards the existing principles of teaching translation. The results of the study would be helpful for students and instructors in teaching and translation studies via providing an interdisciplinary perspective in teaching translation and languages based on students’ attitudes towards the teaching methods in translation courses.

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