Teacher’s Roles and Strategies in Teaching ESP Based Reading Using Translation

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.299How to use a DOI?

Keywords

teacher’s roles and strategies; ESP reading; translation

Abstract

Teaching reading ESP texts must be linked to student-specific specializations which include special programs designed to develop communicative use of English in the fields of science, work or technology. The fact, most students find it difficult to read and understand the meaning of ESP texts because they have to think about discourse with different fields. It needs teacher’s role and strategy to develop a more creative teaching methodology. One of the strategies is by using translation as a pedagogical device. Therefore, the purposes of this study are (i) to investigate what are the teacher's role and strategy in teaching Reading ESP text using translation, (ii) to measure whether translation as a pedagogical device has a significant impact on improving student reading comprehension in the text ESP and (iii) to investigate the experiences students get from translation as a pedagogical device to help them understand the reading of ESP texts. This study used exploratory sequential mixed methods. This research was carried out in one of the existing Health Sciences Schools in Garut Regency and used fourth semester students using purposive sampling. The findings obtained that the roles the ESP teacher as a partner in learning activities, a material provider, a researcher, a collaborator, and an evaluator. Based on the measurement results using the effectiveness table, the use of translation as a pedagogical tool is effective to be applied to the teaching of Reading ESP text. There are three types of student experience in understanding ESP reading texts using Translation; identification of main ideas, making inferences, recognizing paragraph patterns.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lia Novita
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