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The study examines prospective English teachers’ perspectives on developing a translation textbook grounded in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) pedagogical purposes. Quantitative methods used a Likert-scale questionnaire to collect data from 100 prospective English teachers in Indonesia. Results show that, across nine considered aspects, 92% of participants strongly indicate the textbook base is significantly needed. The study argues translation should serve TEFL teaching goals in English Education Study Programs rather than only professional translation practice.

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Advances in Language and Literary Studies ISSN: 2203-4714 [www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au) | Need Analysis for Developing Translation’s Textbook base on TEFL Pedagogical Purpose in Indonesia: English Teachers’Perspectives
Masitowarni Siregar1*, T. Silvana Sinar2, Amrin Saragih1, Syahron Lubis2
1 Universitas Negeri Medan, Indonesia, 2 Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Masitowarni Siregar, E-mail: [siregarmasitowarni@yahoo.com](siregarmasitowarni@yahoo.com) | | | --- | --- | | ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to find out the Prospective English teachers’ perspective on | | Article history | | | Received: February 07, 2018 | the development of translation’s textbook base on Teaching English as a Foreign Language | | Accepted: April 20, 2018 | (TEFL) Pedagogical purpose. Therefore, the quantitative research was applied to gather the | | Published: June 30, 2018
Volume: 9 Issue: 3 | data. By using the questionnaire with Likert Scale, the quantitative data were collected from 100 prospective English teachers in Indonesia. As a result, from nine aspects questioned to the | | Advance access: May 2018 | prospective English teachers, most of them (92%) said that the translation’s textbook base on TEFL Pedagogical purpose was significantly needed. Therefore, the English Education Study Program (EESP) in Indonesia should use translation for teaching English purpose not for | | | | | Conflicts of interest: None | professional career in translation. Therefore, Translation as a TEFL purpose model is the most | | Funding: None | suitable model to be applied in EESP in Indonesia. | | Key words: | | | Translation, | | | PACTE, | | | TEFL, | | | Textbook, and Developing | | INTRODUCTION Background of Study Translation (Translation) is one of the areas of competence reserved for students of English language education in a wide range of universities in the world. These skills help students to be able to transfer a message from a foreign language (the source language) into local language (target) or vice versa. Therefore, the Department of English language education throughout the university in Indonesia provides Translation subject from English to Indonesian and vice versa. However, translation is not the task or job that is very easy; this is not as simple as activities that seeking the meaning of the source language in the target language by using a dictionary. There are many requirements that must be taken into consideration to produce good translations; such asthe type of text, the cultural context and the word has many meanings that must be adapted to the context. Therefore, many experts of translators have been stringing some theories of how to produce a good translation which consistent with the intent of the source language. Experts of translators indicated that the theories and concepts of translation must be provided on the activities of training and learning translation so that the competence of the translation can be understood by a student in accordance with the theory and Published by Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD. the concept (PACTE 2005; Nababan, 2003; Gile, 1995) then Ardi (2010) adds that by gaining the competence of a good translation, a translator is able to choose the best way to solve problems in translation. Therefore, to become a professional translator who require special education professional translation as in professional translation aims to equalize the meaning of a text in the source language and the target language and vice versa (Liu, 2000) . Because of that, to be a professional translator, there are three stages that must be passed by the prospective translators. They are: 1) bilingual practitioners, 2) the ability of realization of two cultures (source and target) practitioners, and 3) sensitivity practitioners (changing and creative ability to produce good prose) (Chau, 2000) . Purpose and thi

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What is the study’s main purpose?

To determine prospective English teachers’ perspectives on the need for developing a translation textbook based on TEFL pedagogical purposes in Indonesia.

How was the data collected?

A quantitative approach used a Likert-scale questionnaire to gather responses from 100 prospective English teachers in Indonesia.

What did the results indicate about the textbook need?

For nine assessed aspects, most participants (92%) stated the TEFL-pedagogy-based translation textbook base is significantly needed.

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