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- Title
EFL Learners’ Attitudes Toward Translation: A Case Study On 19 Mayıs University Prep Class Students.
- Authors
GENÇ, Esen; ÖZCAN DOST, Betül; METİN TEKİN, Bilge
- Abstract
Translation is indispensable in various areas of our lives. Language learning is one of the areas where translation is often used. Although the use of translation in language education has been a controversial topic among scholars and educators, it is without doubt that it plays an important role in the various parts of the process. Therefore, the importance of analysing students’ attitudes toward translation during the language learning process arises. Based on this opinion, this study aims to examine the attitudes toward translation and the use of translation as a strategy in the process of learning English among 19 Mayıs University prep class students who were categorized into two groups as the Upper group and the Lower group. The Upper group consists of Upper Intermediate and Advanced level students while the lower group consists of Pre-intermediate and Intermediate level students. Two questionnaires were carried out on the students and the findings were analysed comparatively. As a result of the comparative analysis, the study revealed that the proficiency level of the students did not play an important role in shaping their beliefs about translation’s role in language learning and the Upper group tended to use translation as a strategy more commonly compared to the Lower group.
- Subjects
STUDENT attitudes; ATTITUDES toward language; LEARNING strategies; LEARNING; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; ENGLISH as a foreign language
- Publication
Ondokuz Mayis University Journal of Education, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 2, p659
- ISSN
1300-302X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7822/omuefd.1176983