CURHAT COLONGAN

Rekan-rekan penerjemah yang tercinta,

Jika suatu hari Anda mendapat tugas menerjemahkan kamus, demi kesehatan jiwa Anda, mintalah waktu tiga kali lebih panjang dari yang diinginkan klien Anda.

Mengapa? Karena menerjemahkan kamus yang hanya berisi kata atau frase yang terisolir dari konteks SAMA SEKALI BUKAN pekerjaan mudah. Anda akan mengalami sulit tidur, sulit makan, dan jantung berdebar tiap kali melihatnya.

Coba terjemahkan frase yang saya cetak miring tadi. Sulit bukan? Bagaimana Anda menerjemahkan melihatnya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris jika nya di sana tidak jelas mengacu kepada apa/siapa. Apakah akan diterjemahkan jadi each time you look at him, atau her, atau it, membingungkan bukan?

DRIVING MISS CRAZY

I love driving and I've been doing it forever. People say the way I drive is smooth, and I'm a patient driver. Having a mechanic as a husband, I don't have to worry about the nitty-gritty of driving. You know, like when the machine won't start or I have a flat tire or stuff like that. Does it mean that if you have a ride it would be the most comfortable? Of course not, don't be ridiculous! I'm not good at comprehending routes. What can I say? My spatial intelligence is under average, I admit that. I'm so good at getting lost. I've been trying to analyze why and here is my silly result:

• Streets with light traffic look way different from those when there's traffic jam.
• Streets during the day look completely different from those during the night.
• One way streets are only for rocket scientists.
• Attention-grabbing conversations with talkative passangers will drag you from Tanah Kusir to Pejompongan.
• Not everyone is gifted with intuition in finding ways. When you get lost more than twice a week, wake up. You are blessed with many other things but never trust your feelings when finding a place.
• Don't trust deja vu either, it's not for driving.

Ebooks and Presentations

"The Art of Teacher Training"

The content of the book:
Approaching the issue
Gaining a rapport
Trainee-centred approach
Teacher development VS: teacher training
Reflective model
Critical thinking
Loop input
Awareness raising
Teaching observation
Course design
Micro-teaching
Teacher's project
Teacher's feedback

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"Three Models of Culture" 

(Power Point presentation at the 5th Pan-Asian Conference in Vladivostok, Russia, June 2004. For downloading CLICK HERE "Cognitive Approach to Vocabulary Teaching and Learning". Power Point presentation at the 10th NATE conference in Tambov (Russia), June, 2004. For downloading CLICK HERE

"Teaching Unsuccessful Learners as Potential Achievers"

This training pack for teachers is designed to explore the ways to teach unsuccessful learners of English as potential achievers.

The book discusses the types of problems that language learners can encounter in dealing with cognitive tasks. It also addresses a variaty of reasons for experiencing difficulties in language learning and suggests the ways to deal with these challenges.

The content of the material includes the following major points further subdivided in the book:
Individual differences in learners
Cognitive and learning styles
Learning disabilities
Learning environment
Success building approaches
Glossary
References and further reading
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"Introducing Classroom Research for Teachers" 

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"How to Write Research Paper in ELT"

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