TAILIEUCHUNG - Enhancing students’ problem identification in translation teaching in an English language program

The study found that students diverted their attention from linguistic problems to other non-linguistic ones (extralinguistic issues related to extratextual features and general style conventions) after the workshops. This change led to some students’ attempts to avoid word-forword translation and produce more idiomatic translation solutions as shown in the analysis of titles. Recommendations were made on the inclusion of text analysis and problem identification in developing students’ translation skills. | VNU Journal of Foreign Studies 2020 63-79 63 ENHANCING STUDENTS PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION IN TRANSLATION TEACHING IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM Nguyen Thi Thu Huong University of Foreign Language Studies University of Danang 131 Luong Nhu Hoc Cam Le Danang Vietnam Received 16 April 2020 Revised 07 June 2020 Accepted 22 July 2020 Abstract Teaching translation in Vietnam and other contexts tends to overemphasise linguistic issues in translation and lack focus on students translation process. Drawing on a functional approach to translation this pedagogical study investigates students identification of translation problems part of strategic competence in a translation course in a tertiary English language program. The differences in students ability to identify translation problems were evaluated through a contrastive examination of a qualitative analysis of students written reflections on the translation tasks and their translation solutions both before and after the workshops. The study found that students diverted their attention from linguistic problems to other non-linguistic ones extralinguistic issues related to extratextual features and general style conventions after the workshops. This change led to some students attempts to avoid word-for- word translation and produce more idiomatic translation solutions as shown in the analysis of titles. Recommendations were made on the inclusion of text analysis and problem identification in developing students translation skills. Keywords translation teaching translation process translation problems translation problem identification text analysis 1. Introduction 1 in Vietnam who are often expected to engage The pressures caused by the increased in professional translation work usually lack global and local demand for translation the skills and ability to do so Ho amp Bui services and the lack of professional translator 2013 T. T. Nguyen 2010 . This can be linked training in Vietnam are directed to translation

• Giáo dục học
• Translation teaching
• Translation process
• Translation problems
• Translation problem identification
• Text analysis
• Social Sciences
• Errors in translation made
• Translation assessment
• Translation errors
• Translation in English language teaching
• Contrastive linguistics
• Contrastive linguistics approach
• Teaching English Vietnamese
• Teaching English Vietnamese terminology translation
• Teaching terminology translation
• Machine translation
• Human translation
• Quality of translation
• Linguistic criteria
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Construction and architecture sector
• Master thesis
• Master minor programme thesis English teaching methodology
• English teaching methodology
• Translation procedures applied
• The conceptual metaphors
• The call of the wild
• Quantitative research
• Teaching translation
• Teaching translation modules
• Analyze questionnaires
• Blended learning
• Register theory
• Translation assessment criteria
• Linguistic variables
• Tertiary level
• Master thesis English teaching methodology
• English – Vietnamese translation
• Dịch thuật Anh – Việt
• Odontology materials
• Course book
• Dubbing voice
• Projects translation
• Task activities
• VNU Journal of Science
• Verbs or nouns
• Sound more natural in vietnamese and implications
• English and translation teaching to vietnamese students
• Confirm previous findings on Vietnamese communicative preferences
• Multiple choice discourse completion task
• The application of portfolios in teaching
• Learning translation 1 at faculty of foreign languages
• Vietnam’s universities and colleges
• Interviews and Portfolio collection and analysis
• The story telling technique
• Teaching vocabulary in high school classrooms
• Teaching technique
• The definition and translation
• Assist high school teachers
• Voice recorder technology
• Phần mềm Audionote
• Listening skills
• Teaching listening skills
• Listening comprehension
• Word for word translation
• Metacognitive strategies
• practice English grammar
• English grammar basics
• practice english translation
• english study materials
• english communication
• english vocabulary
• conversational English
• teaching english
• Cognitive metaphor
• English language teaching and learning
• Translation studies
• Cross cultural communication
• English versus Vietnamese lyric songs
• Cooperative learning
• Cognitive development
• Language proficiency
• Assessing interpreting
• A textbook of translation
• Teaching vocabulary
• Grammar translation method
• Non English major students
• Language skills
• Theoretical basis