Show/Hide Menu
Hide/Show Apps
Logout
Türkçe
Türkçe
Search
Search
Login
Login
OpenMETU
OpenMETU
About
About
Open Science Policy
Open Science Policy
Open Access Guideline
Open Access Guideline
Postgraduate Thesis Guideline
Postgraduate Thesis Guideline
Communities & Collections
Communities & Collections
Help
Help
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Guides
Guides
Thesis submission
Thesis submission
MS without thesis term project submission
MS without thesis term project submission
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission
Publication submission
Supporting Information
Supporting Information
General Information
General Information
Copyright, Embargo and License
Copyright, Embargo and License
Contact us
Contact us
A needs analysis study for the English-Turkish translation course offered to management students of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Başkent University
Download
index.pdf
Date
2004
Author
Mutlu, Özlem
Metadata
Show full item record
Item Usage Stats
531
views
217
downloads
Cite This
The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the needs of the third year Management students of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Baskent University with regard to the English-Turkish Translation Course through the perceptions of the students; course instructors including the course designer; graduates who took the course; subject-area instructors of the Department of Management; and the professionals practicing in different fields of management and business administration. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were extended to the course designer and the instructors who teach the course for the improvement of the course. The data collection instruments used for the study were a Needs Analysis Questionnaire administered to fifty-three students and structured interviews conducted with the six course instructors, sixteen departmental instructors, ten graduates and ten professionals. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured by using Cronbach Alpha test and all the instruments were pilot-tested. Both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered which were analyzed using descriptive statistics (percentages and frequencies). The study brought into light the fact that translation particularly from English into Turkish was perceived to be a very important skill primarily in students̕ departmental studies most of which they do in Turkish and for which they do most of their field-specific readings in English, which renders transfer from the foreign language into the native language indispensable. Perceptions of the participants also revealed that the translation course, in addition to improving the translation skill, raised competence in the foreign language, primarily in terms of enhancing knowledge of vocabulary, reading comprehension skill and writing skill. One of the major strengths of the translation course was found
Subject Keywords
Curriculum.
URI
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605250/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14496
Collections
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis
Suggestions
OpenMETU
Core
An investigation of the effectiveness of the theme-based curriculum in the 2003-2004 academic year at the department of basic English at Middle East Technical University
Topçu, Tansu; Daloğlu, Ayşegül; Department of English Language Teaching (2005)
This study examines the implementation of the theme-based curriculum in the 2003-2004 academic year to meet the goals and objectives of DBE students at METU. The research design of the study includes questionnaires and focus group interviews with former DBE students and DBE teachers. At the first stage, 231 students and 60 teachers took the questionnaire. Then, 19 students (in groups) and teachers (individually) were interviewed. The results indicated that there was a big difference between the perceptions ...
Evaluating the language improvement courses in the undergraduate ELT curriculum at Eastern Mediterranean University: a case study
Erozan, Fatoş; Daloğlu, Ayşegül; Department of English Language Teaching (2005)
The present study evaluates the language improvement courses in the undergraduate curriculum of the Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) at Eastern Mediterranean University. The language improvement courses are: Oral Communication Skills I and II, Reading Skills I, II, and Advanced Reading Skills, Writing Skills I, II and Advanced Writing Skills, and English Grammar I and II. In this evaluation study, the adapted version of Bellon and Handler̕s (1982) curriculum evaluation model was employed. The p...
Motives that attract parents to send their children to curriculum laboratory schools and students' satisfaction with the services provided
Çelik, Nehir Taşkın; Ok, Ahmet; Department of Educational Sciences (2005)
The aim of this study was to identify the reasons of parents̕ preferring Curriculum Laboratory Schools (CLSs) for their children̕s education and to investigate whether the students attending Curriculum Laboratory Schools are satisfied with the physical, instructional and social opportunities (services) offered at these schools. The sample of the study consisted of 440 seventh grade students and 14 parents from seven curriculum laboratory schools in the province of Ankara. Two instruments were used for data ...
Teaching Logarithm by Guided Discovery Learning and Real Life Applications
Çetin, Yücel; Çakıroğlu, Erdinç; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2004)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of discovery and application based instruction (DABI) on students̕ mathematics achievement and also to explore opinions of students toward DABI. The research was conducted by 118 ninth grade students from Etimesgut Anatolian High School, in Ankara, during the spring semester of 2001-2002 academic year. During the study, experimental groups received DABI and control groups received Traditionally Based Instruction (TBI). The treatment was completed in th...
An examination of the relationship between content familiar texts derived from readers' interest and reading performance of English language learners at University level
Öztürk, Nesrin; Aksu, Meral; Department of Educational Sciences (2010)
This study aimed to examine the relationship of background knowledge in relation to topic interest and reading performance of English language learners at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. For that, a reading interest questionnaire and three reading comprehension tests, which were accompanied with a 2-item background & interest questionnaire, were developed by the researcher. These instruments were implemented on 75 English language learners studying at TOBB ETU Preparatory School. The results ob...
Citation Formats
IEEE
ACM
APA
CHICAGO
MLA
BibTeX
Ö. Mutlu, “A needs analysis study for the English-Turkish translation course offered to management students of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Başkent University,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.