THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSLATION AND STRATEGIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Аннотация

Learning a foreign language can definitely become a challenge for learners in terms of unlikely grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, not least for undergraduates who are still in an acquisition process. Various strategies and factors have been found to encourage students to get motivated. The purpose this paper to focuse on what students’ beliefs are about the role of translation in learning a foreign language and how many of them consider and use it as a crucial tool while learning a language. Significantly, the key research methods, especially involve an online questionnaire on which the percentages of students who answered are represented in a specific university by both qualitative and quantitative research. One of the most fundamental aspects of a learning language is undoubtedly a translation by which learners not only comprehend the meaning of what they are acquiring in the second language, but also they can understand key inclusions of a particular language, such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Overall, survey carried out online, involving 55 participants, showed that majority of respondents consider translation as one of the most significant factors in learning a foreign language, meanwhile, most of them mention that they use dictionaries in order to translate.