Teaching Translation during COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Discoveries

Autor/in	Alwazna, Rafat Y.
Titel	Teaching Translation during COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Discoveries
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 12 (2021) 4, S.86-102 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Alwazna, Rafat Y.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Translation; Teaching Methods; COVID-19; Pandemics; Online Courses; Language Teachers; Barriers; Learning Processes; Distance Education; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Experience; Computational Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Online course; Online-Kurs; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Learning process; Lernprozess; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik
Abstract	The present paper addresses translation teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak, seeking to discover the challenges translation teachers encounter in online education and the solutions available to resolve them. Its importance springs from the fact that teaching almost all over the world had to depend on distant teaching/learning through electronic platforms to face the pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, the present study seeks to discover the challenges encountered in online translation teaching and the proposed solutions to overcome them. It intends to answer the following questions: how does teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak look like? What are the challenges encountered in teaching translation during the COVID-19 outbreak? What are the discoveries found in teaching translation during the COVID19 outbreak that may serve as advantages/solutions for the challenges faced? The paper uses a comprehensive questionnaire containing closed-ended and open-ended questions to elicit quantitative and qualitative data from sixty translation teachers. The data shows that 40% of the participants evaluate their online translation teaching experience during the COVID-19 outbreak as enjoyable. In contrast, no participant has assessed their online translation teaching experience as not good. About 23.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience very good, and the same percentage applies to those who evaluate their online translation teaching experience as good to some extent. Thus, around 13.33% of the participants consider their online translation teaching experience good. The data also indicates that most participants have encountered obstacles in online teaching and have concurrently proposed solutions to resolve them. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01