Evaluating The Role Of News Text Translation From English Into Arabic In Learning New Terminology In Efl Classes

Résumé: Many researchers have questioned the role of translation in foreign language classes. Moreover, only few scholars welcomed it as a learning method. The present study aims at evaluating the role of news text translation from English into Arabic in learning terminology. It attempts to account the hypothesis or reject the fact that news text translation is an effective method, in helping learners acquire new terminology in EFL classes. To check the hypothesis, a mixed method used in this study which are a descriptive along with non-experimental methods. First, a task was conducted after dealing with three different news text translation in order to test the participant capacity of translating modern terms. Secondly, a questionnaire designed to answer some concerns under the terminology learning through news translation. Both the task and the pilot questionnaire were made up for third year LMD students of the English department at Larbi Ben M'hidi University in Oum El Bouaghi. The results obtained revealed that there was a statistically significant of learning new terms through translation model specifically translation of news texts. It also shown that translation is an effective learning method of terminology. To sum up, the findings of this research lent more support to stated our hypothesis.

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