The Role of Translation Competition in Improving Students' English Competence: a Survey Research in 2015 Translation Competition Held in UPH Lippo Karawaci  

Oleh:

Winardi, Yonathan ; Sidupa, Christiana

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 833-838.
Topik: 3 roles of translation competition; students' English competence; survey; college students; UPH.
Fulltext: hal 833.pdf (16.58MB)

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The paper describes and discusses the 3 roles of a considered new competition, a translation competition in improving students' English competence: before the competition, during the competition, and after the competition. A survey is done towards 38 participants in the 2015 translation competition held in Faculty of Education, Teachers College, UPHLippoKarawaci. The participants are college students who compete in three rounds. A new set of questions in Bahasa Indonesia is made and used in the preliminary round for 30 participants to translate in English. It focuses on the grammatical accuracy. Thus, the best 10 participants move on to the semifinal round to translate one article taken from the Jakarta post. Three adjudicators eventually select five participants to enter the final round, translating an article from Kompas. The use of dictionary is allowed during each round of the competition. Both newspapers are the final round day edition to ensure its fairness. The duration for each round is 20 minutes. A questionnaire is distributed during competition to know the participants’ perception about the role of the translation competition they join. The result of the survey show that the participants enjoy and consider the translation competition is beneficial for them. Constructive suggestions from the participants are also presented in order to advance the future translation competition and as a basis for decision making whether to stop the competition or to modify it so it will be more beneficial in the future.

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