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Title Translation Pedagogy in pakistan at Secondary Level: Strategic and practices

Author(s) Syed Ghulam Haider

Abstract Title: Translation Pedagogy in Pakistan at Secondary Level: Strategies and Practices Given the importance of translation and its teaching, the focal point of the study was the investigation and analysis of translation strategies and practices adopted by English subject teachers in classroom. The study was carried out with the help of Baker’s Taxonomy (2011) that was used as the theoretical lens. Considering the immense importance that it is enjoying in Pakistan, English was taken as the Source Language (SL) in this study, while Urdu, being the national language, was taken as the Target Language (TL). The collection of data was rendered through recorded lectures of English subject teachers of grade IX. These lectures were first recorded and then transcribed for the sake of analysis. Besides the recordings of the lectures, the researcher also used an observation sheet as data collection tool. As for the analysis of the collected data, eclectic method was employed in exploring this study: data was collected qualitatively; however, analysis combined both, quantitative and qualitative methods. Keeping in mind the complexity as well as the epistemological nature of Baker’s Taxonomy in terms of its different layers, the analysis was limited to word level and accomplished on theoretical underpinnings of Baker’s strategies of non-equivalence. The study has revealed naivety of English subject teachers to theories and strategies of translation since none of them seemed to have any idea of translation as a systematic process; therefore, the study is likely to help English teachers broadening their horizons in translation studies; it may also be an aid to the policy makers and curriculum developers to formulate a policy in accordance with current state of the art of translation strategies in academia.

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Publication Date 2023-06-16

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