A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FORM VS. MEANING FOCUSED TRANSLATION INSTRUCTION (FROM ENGLISH INTO TURKISH) TO THE SECOND YEAR ELT STUDENTS
Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Gazi Üniversitesi, Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi, Türkiye
Tez Danışmanı: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Abdullah Ertaş
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2010
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Özet:
This study explores the contributions of form and meaning focused translation
instruction on the progress of translations, reading and language skills of the students in
the Department of English Language Teaching. Also the study investigates the
translation skills of good, average and poor readers.
The participants were enrolled in form and meaning focused translation
instruction in the translation course for ten weeks in the Fall Semester of 2009-2010
academic year at the Department of English Language Teaching, Gazi Faculty of
Education, Gazi University. The quantitative and qualitative data collection tools were
the reading comprehension test, the translation test, the language skills self-assessment
scale and the English Language Teaching Department students’ beliefs and their
strategy use in translation questionnaire. Using data from the tests administered before
and after the treatment, it is revealed that students who have been treated with meaning
focused translation instruction had performed better than the students who have been
treated with form focused translation instruction. Furthermore, it has also revealed that
good readers performed better translating skills than the average and poor readers.
This study comprises of five chapters, and the first chapter offers a background
to the study. Also in this chapter the aim and scope of the study, and the methods are
given. In the second chapter the literature review is presented. The history of foreign
language teaching, translation and reading is given in detail. Chapter three deals with
the research methodology and the fourth chapter gives the data analysis, and presents a
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discussion of the results. Chapter five is the conclusion section and a brief summary of
the study is presented.
Key Words: form focused translation instruction, meaning focused translation
instruction, translation, reading