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JUDUL BUKU : TRANSLATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING I

PENULIS : Dr. Ignatius J. C. Tuerah, S.S., M.Pd, Dr. Jeane Tuilan, M.Pd, Violetta E. S. Najoan, S.Pd, Noviana Neila Ratu, S.Pd, Michelle Rachel Lontaan, S.Pd, Julio C. Sepang, S.S.

EDITOR : Herminus E. Pabur, M.Pd, Dr. Ni Wayan Surya Mahayanti, S.Pd., M.Pd, Indra Rianto, S.Kom, MT.

HALAMAN : vii, 160

SINOPSIS:

Book I of Translation in Language Teaching and Learning serves as the foundation for the series. It introduces essential concepts, theoretical underpinnings, and evolving pedagogical practices related to translation in language learning. The volume is written for teachers, researchers, and students who wish to understand both the philosophical and the practical dimensions of translation in educational contexts, and it consistently links theory to practice, historical perspectives to current innovations, and linguistic understanding to classroom application.

Introduction to Translation in Language Education Book I cover various basic and interesting topics. First, it defines the scope of translation within language education and traces its historical trajectory from the grammar translation tradition to modern communicative paradigms. Theories of Translation and Language Learning surveys major translation theories and their intersections with language learning, highlighting equivalence, functionalist and skopos orientations, communicative approaches, contrastive analysis, interlingual transfer, cognitive perspectives, and translation as mediation between languages and cultures. Translation and Language Skills Development explains how translation supports core language skills, including vocabulary acquisition, grammatical and structural awareness, reading comprehension, and the enhancement of writing and speaking through well designed tasks. Translation in Teaching Approaches and Methods examines translation within the Grammar Translation Method, Communicative Language Teaching, and Task Based Language Teaching, and outlines ways to integrate translation into blended and digital learning environments.

This volume is intended as both a theoretical resource and a pedagogical guide. It draws on two decades of classroom practice, teacher training, and cross linguistic inquiry in diverse contexts. Readers will find principled explanations of why translation facilitates noticing, hypothesis testing, and form meaning mapping, as well as practical ideas for designing activities that are communicative, purposeful, and developmentally appropriate. As language education moves further into multilingual, intercultural, and technology enhanced landscapes, the pedagogical role of translation merits renewed attention. Book I of Translation in Language Teaching and Learning lays the conceptual groundwork that Book II will build on, where translation is treated as a classroom tool, a pathway to intercultural competence, a partner to emerging technologies, and a subject of ongoing research. Finally, It is expected that this book will inspire educators and learners to see translation not merely as an act of linguistic conversion, but as an intellectual, cultural, and creative endeavor.