TASK 2 - ICT in Language Learning

SUMMARY 

A report from Japan showed that ICT can improve students’ motivation in learning, especially in terms of “Knowledge-Comprehension”, “Practical skill” and “Presentation skill”. Although ICT can give some advantages for students in education, ICT also can give some disadvantages in education . The advantages of ICT in education are: by seeing the pictures, students can remember the material longer, for the teacher, they could measure how far students understand the material, and they could make learning more interesting for students and could improve students attendance and concentration. On the other side, the disadvantages of ICT in education are : many teachers that haven’t known what ICT is, and buying of ICT equipment is too expensive.

Nowadays, technology will develop rapidly and newer, even it is cheaper and stronger will appear to make the whole of the world more sophisticated. Many efforts that people do to make the education more sophisticated, like TV and Radio or mobile phone are used in some school to make learning more interesting and sophisticated. New internet technology will exist to provide connectivity to remoter areas, and software that students could get freely from internet to support education.

In some school, the teachers have shown to their students some application or software that they can use in online teaching. It can make their students to be more creative and make learning more interesting. Some software that the teachers can use are wallwisher and prezi. Wallwisher looks like facebook, it can be used for sharing some URL, link web, pictures, audio, video or making note. Teachers can ask their students to post their assignment on wallwisher, and the teachers can assess their assignment or give feedback. Prezi, it can be used for presentation. It looks like power point, but Prezi shows the presentation more interesting. In power point, the form of presentation is some slides, but in Prezi, the form of presentation is like a map. The teachers can zoom out or zoom in.

Planning Commission said that ICT tools must be used for significantly improving the educational services and for streamlining the admission process. ICT must be used to improve learning service. ICT can be used to increase experience in learning and can improve the quality of research and collaboration by providing knowledge and information widely because education is a key for growth and prosperity of a country.

Because of its interactive and dynamic nature, ICT has the potential to meet the needs of individual students by providing opportunities to direct their learning and to pursue information, or complete tasks, in ways which meet their own interests and needs. (Computer based technologies in English KLA, 1997, p6). If the teacher use ICT in learning, it could make students more creative because they can use multimedia to make the material in learning more interesting. Using ICT in English could improve students skill in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students could get all of the material that they need from internet in some form like picture, animation, audio or video.

TASK 1 ICT in Language Learning

SUMMARY

                Nowdays, internet is like a primary thing. Everything that we will do, sometimes wi need internet. In education, a teacher will ask his/her students to use internet for the learning process. They can use internet to browse the material they can use to add their knowledge. Thay can use ebook to get many books from internet easily. For other people, they can use internet like for selling or buying something, usually we call it online-shop. They also can use internet for online baking, online office suites, shopping cart software, teleconferencing, electronic ticket, etc. Using internet is very easy now, we can use our mobile or smartphone for accessing internet every time and every where we want. It’s an evidence that how useful internet is.

                If we use internet, we usually find a word or some words ( usually the color of those are blue) that if we click it, it will refer to another web page that have the similar context with them.  We can call it as hypertext. From hypertext, we can freely get many things (text) from one web page to another, go forward or back.

                There is also hypermedia. Hypermedia is like hypertext, but hypermedia is combination between hypertext and multimedia, like images or sounds or animations. So hypermedia not only contain links but also some forms of sounds, images, animation or videos.

                Actually, Internet can give us some advantages and disadvantages. It depends on how we use internet well or not. For the advantages are we can access everythat that we want, we can know what happen in other countries by browsing the news through internet, and we can do some innovation from it. But at the same time, there are some disadavantages like virus threat that can destroy our pc or mobile phone that we use to browse internet, and some worrying for the teachers if their students used internet for the materials not connected with the learning process.

               

Task 5

Simile

1.      Your heart as brave as a lion

2.      Your smile is so bright such as a diamond in the sky

3.      He works hard as if tomorrow never comes

4.      Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep

5.      His skin was as cold as ice

Metaphor

1.      Hope is a candle in the dark

2.      Mass media is watch dogAll the world's a stage

3.      I got cold feet before I was supposed to talk in class.

4.      I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders.

5.      I have butter fingers today; I keep dropping things.

Allusion

1. “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.”

“Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.

2. The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.

This is an allusion to one of Greek Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.

3. “This place is like a Garden of Eden.”

This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.

4. “Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?”

“Newton”, means a genius student, alludes to a famous scientist Isaac Newton.

5. “Stop acting like my ex-husband please.”

Apart from scholarly allusions we refer to common people and places in our speech.

Task 4

The following are the different translation procedures that Newmark (1988b) proposes:

1. Transference: it is the process of transferring an SL word to a TL text. It includes transliteration and is the same as what Harvey (2000:5) named "transcription."

Example           1. My uncle works as supervisor in that company :Pamankubekerjasebagaisupervisor di perusahanity

2. Jack is a master in mathematic : Jack adalahseorang master di matematika.

2. Naturalization: it adapts the SL word first to the normal pronunciation, then to the normal morphology of the TL. (Newmark, 1988b:82)

Example          1.psychology = psikologi

                        2.photo            = foto

3. Cultural equivalent: it means replacing a cultural word in the SL with a TL one. however, "they are not accurate" (Newmark, 1988b:83)

Example          1. Mini baseball = kasti

                        2.pedicab            = becak

4. Functional equivalent: it requires the use of a culture-neutral word. (Newmark, 1988b:83)

Example          1.Hanbok (Korea)                   = Kebaya

                        2.Sambrero (Meksiko) = Blankon

5. Descriptive equivalent:in this procedure the meaning of the CBT is explained in several words. (Newmark, 1988b:83)

Example          1.Panettone = the traditional cookies from Italy that we can eat in every new year party

                        2.BirPletok = the traditional drinks from Betawi that’s mnde by ginger

6. Componential analysis: it means "comparing an SL word with a TL word which has a similar meaning but is not an obvious one-to-one equivalent, by demonstrating first their common and then their differing sense components." (Newmark, 1988b:114)

Example          1.Clean clothes = washed clothes,  through.

                        2.clean water = water you can see

7. Synonymy: it is a "near TL equivalent." Here economy trumps accuracy. (Newmark, 1988b:84)

Example          1.Smart  = clever = brainy

                        2.honest = fair = frank = truthful

8. Through-translation: it is the literal translation of common collocations, names of organizations and components of compounds. It can also be called: calque or loan translation. (Newmark, 1988b:84)

Example          1. Normal school = sekolah normal

                        2.Manchester University = Universitas Manchester

9. Shifts or transpositions: it involves a change in the grammar from SL to TL, for instance, (i) change from singular to plural, (ii) the change required when a specific SL structure does not exist in the TL, (iii) change of an SL verb to a TL word, change of an SL noun group to a TL noun and so forth. (Newmark, 1988b:86)

Example          1. Children = our children

                        2.succeed = success

10. Modulation: it occurs when the translator reproduces the message of the original text in the TL text in conformity with the current norms of the TL, since the SL and the TL may appear dissimilar in terms of perspective. (Newmark, 1988b:88)

Example          1.Youre going to have a nephew  =andaakanjaditante

2.The laws of Germany govern this Agreement. = PerjanjianinidiaturolehhukumJerman.

11. Recognized translation: it occurs when the translator "normally uses the official or the generally accepted translation of any institutional term." (Newmark, 1988b:89)

Example          1. United Kingdom = Britannia

                        2.Uni Soviet = USSR (Uni Soviet Socialist Republic)

12. Compensation: it occurs when loss of meaning in one part of a sentence is compensated in another part. (Newmark, 1988b:90)

Example          1.Vengeance is mine!àSaatnyabalasdendam

                        2.have a good time ! = bersenang-senanglah !

13. Paraphrase: in this procedure the meaning of the CBT is explained. Here the explanation is much more detailed than that of descriptive equivalent. (Newmark, 1988b:91)

Example          1.Hypsiphobia (suatu kondisi dimana seseorang merasa amat sangat takut ketika ia berada di Ketinggian)

                        2.Hydrophobia (suatu kondisi dimana seseorang merasa takut yang amat sangat ketika melihat air)

14. Couplets: it occurs when the translator combines two different procedures. (Newmark, 1988b:91)

Example          1.menu (menu) => transference and naturalization

                        2.data (data) => transference and naturalization

15. Notes: notes are additional information in a translation. (Newmark, 1988b:91)

Example          1.PS : Milky Way is a galaxy = NB : BimaSaktiadalahsebuah galaxy

2.Spoiler : Fast and Furious 7 will be display on 2015 = Bocoran : Fust and Furious akantayangpadatahun 2015