Reflection of Week 6

One of My Translation Classes

Wow..., It was a big job I did in this week. I did teaching and observing large classes, applying some technological tools for them, and making PowerPoint slides. What I did can be a away of anticipating my problems of teaching translation classes. It is very difficult to teach a translation class because it is different from teaching four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, or writing. It is teaching Applied Linguistics. However, all efforts I did may give solutions to my students. The followings are what I delivered in my own classrooms as efforts to create the teaching and learning process in the large classes better:

1) Preparing, designing and delivering teaching 
    by using PowerPoint Slides
I have two large classes of translation. They are the fifth semester students of English Department. As a way to anticipate the problem of teaching at large classes in relation to the lesson material demand, I managed my classes by providing some PowerPoint slides. I used them for teaching some theories of translation. 

2) Making tutor blog 
By making a tutor blog I could instruct and assign my students some materials and tasks to learn and to do. Through this blog I could teach the students more materials and give them assignments by posting all on it. One of my blogs or a personal web I have is http://duniaterjemah.com/. I uploaded a file on the assignments slot http://duniaterjemah.com/?page_id=8079, then I asked students to download it and do the assignment by posting it on their own blog.

3) Creating learners blog
Beside providing the tutor blog, I instructed my students to create their own blog. Now each of them has a learner blog. See some of them can be seen on http://e-teachingweb.blogspot.com/p/the.html at the learners blog slot. Through their blogs, the students can post their work and I can see their work and they also can see their works one another. Through their blog I can assess their translation product.

http://mazinubersahabat.blogspot.com

4) Using search engines
The next effort was I asked them to do Web searching by visiting some search engines of translation, such as http://www.freetranslation.com/, http://www.bing.com/translator, and http://translation-assistant.com/ for their translation practice. Through this way they could be familiar with some URLs of translation studies, such as theories and practices of translation. With this I hope my students can be literate and familiar on translation search engines.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrs20/current caption

5) Searching Online Journals
For enhancing and enriching their knowledge capacity of translation studies, I asked my students to search some online journals of translation studies, such as http://translationjournal.net/journal/, http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/jot, http://www.trans-int.org/index.php/transint, and http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2012/v57/n3/index.html. Through these online journals they can read more information about current issues of translation studies and theories.

http://translation.fusp.it/

6) Providing some offline and online e-books.
Beside four efforts above, I provided then some offline e-books of translation studies in the form of files. I shared those e-books to my students to have and read. On the other hand I also asked them to see and look up some online e-books on which they can read and take some information of translation theories. Some of them are http://books.google.com, http://scholar.google.com/, http://en.langueclub.com/, and http://www.scribd.com/.

7) Introducing some Webskills Products
The last was introducing the Webskills online products. Through this Webskills program, I got more information about Web tools are very important for my students. I introduced to them https://delicious.com/erhamadina, https://sites.google.com/site/seanswebskillswikifall2013/suggested-links/rwg-links that provide them some references to read.

That's all what I did to anticipate and solve my own problems of teaching translation in my large classes. Thanks.
 
Best regards,
Rudi Hartono