LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Learning English through Translation -
A Case for Bilingual Dictionaries

Ali Ahmad and Muhammad Rashid Hafeez

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the learning of English as a second language through translation using bilingual dictionaries tool translation. The study was quantitative in nature. It followed a pre-test post-test single group experimental design. A questionnaire was also administered among the teachers imparting second language education.

The population of the study consisted of the higher secondary school students learning English as a second language as well as the teachers teaching English at this level. 100 secondary school teachers teaching English as a second language at higher secondary level and 50 students learning English at the said level were selected as the sample of the study.

It was found that the learners of English do not use bilingual dictionaries to get the help for the semantic problems faced by them during language learning. However, it was observed through the analysis of the test that the use of bilingual dictionaries in translation tasks brings better results. The study concluded that in such circumstances where two languages involve in language teaching, language learning can be improved through translation by using bilingual dictionaries.

1.1 Introduction

Second and foreign language learning is a very complex phenomenon. It “goes on in many different contexts, under many vastly different conditions, involving many different kind of teachers and teaching, themselves using much diverse material with many different learners” (Porte, 2002:35). The process of second language learning is knotty because the learners have already learnt a language and the patterns and structure of that first language always interfere during the course of second language learning. The habits established in the childhood for the first language interfere with the establishment of a different set of habits for the second language (Gass & Selinker, 2001).

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Ali Ahmad
(Doctoral Scholar)
Assistant Professor
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Sahiwal
Pakistan
ali@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk

Muhammad Rashid Hafeez
(Doctoral Scholar)
Bahauddin Zakariya University
Multan
Pakistan

Also Lecturer, Shinas College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman
safnaan@hotmail.com
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