CRITICAL BOOK REPORT

“TRANSLATION IN ELT”

ARRANGED BY :

DEBBY RIZKI
DEWI BALQIS
INDAH MAYASARI
ELVINA
MARDHATILLAH

English Education 17 B

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

DEPARTMENT LANGUAGES AND ARTS FACULTY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN 2019
 PREFACE

This paper is the part of the mandatory assignment that have to be completed
for the Translation in ELT subject. The purpose of this paper is to provide and
explaind to the reader or the student that is related to the study in this context. The
context of this paper is criticize about one book report.
This critical book expecially for the translation that develops the
communication skills and and specialist English language knowledge in Translation
that students and professionals, enabling them to work more confidently and
effectively. Therefore, the compilers would to thank all those who have provided
motivation in the preparation of this paper.

Medan 23 April 2019

Team work
 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1. IDENTITY
First Book
Firstly as the begining of this introduction, we would like to introduce the
reader about this book. The title of this book is “Translation in ELT from theory to
practice” with the authors Dr. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed and Indra Hartoyo, S.Pd.,
M.Hum. English languages and literature department, language and arts faculty
University of Medan 2019. This book is contains with 10 units and 84 pages.
Second Book
The book that I want to critisize is “Introducing Translation Studies: Theories
and Application by Jeremy Munday. This book was published in 2008 by Routledge
in New York. This book has 226 pages with 12 chaptrers. Tha author of this book,
Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation studies at the University of Leeds and has
also worked as a freelance translator. He is author of Style and Ideology in
Translation (RThe Routledge Companion to Translation Studies outledge, 2008) and
Evaluation in Translation (Routledge, 2012), editor of (2009) and co-author, with
Basil Hatim, of Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge, 2004).

2. PURPOSE

As a purpose of this paper, this critical book report is having a bunch of

benefit instead of doing assignment. As a purpose to build up the analysis and the
critical thingking for an individual student or a group expecially on this subject
translation in ELT. This book refers to critizes the differences between two books, as
a hope after doing this critical book report, the reader and the writter get any benefit
and information based on the books that has been choosen.
 CHAPTER II
SUMMARY
Summary first book
This Translation in ELT book is as the first book as the comparison with the
second book that we have been chosen and before this section expaind about this
Translation in ELT’s book, to begin with it will be expaind that this book did not put
any table of contents as the opening before jump to every each units. As we can see
on the tittle that this book from theory to practice as the tittle claimed. These units are
Theory of Translation for unit 1, Analysis of Meaning foe unit 2, kinds of Translation
for unit 3, stepd of Translation for unit 4, Evaluation for unit 5, Translating
Interpersonal communication Texts for unit 6, translating short functional text for unit
8, translating long functional texts for unit 9 and the last unit is using Translation in
English language teaching. It demonstates that from the first until in the end of these
chapter that this book has provided for the reader, we think that this book is good
enough to open the content of the study that it puts such as some basic competency,
brief description, focus, indicators, some of explanation, the importance of those
aspects and also a bunch of theories from many experts and the assessment point in
the end of the chapter and it has the Bibliography in the end of this book.
While we can see the mechanism of the way this book organized to make the
learning process systematically, we take the first unit with the theory Translation. The
authors are giving the nice way to deliver the material or the subject lesson. In the
unit 1 there are 5 points in what will the students learning. There are the text to be
translated, discover the meaning, meaning, re-express the meaning and translation. It
all continues to all the next units in this book that delivered the idea of the authors to
give their’s thought into a large expression in this book. for example we can see in
the focus in the first unit, this book gives the explanation that what seems even more
strange is have little or no use for te various theories of translation. They regard them
as largely a waste of time, expecially since most professional translators regularly and
concistently violate so many rules laid down by theories and one reason for rejecting
certain theories of translation is the fact that they are often too heavy in technical
terminology and too light on ilustratuive examples of what top-flight translators
actually do.
In another hand, we can see that the linkages among each units is not bind up
well so the previous materials does not related become once plot in this book, we
think it sould be better if the autors arrange it first before putting up these unit. And
we also consider about the points in each unit is basically has different perspective by
explaning the basic competence in this book. but all of the basic competence in each
unit has already put the achivement of the result for the goals in the center of the
subject instead of from theory to practice.
Therefore, it can be summarized that this book has a good way to lead the
students and the learner in teaching and learning process to guide the student
sistematicaly with the Translation in ELT that has been provided. This book gives
more about how, why, what the Translation in ELT be. In the end we can see this
book also gives the background information and useful bibliography.

Summary second book

Introducing Translation Studies is the title of a book by Jeremy Munday in
which he develops and, let’s say, gathers most fundamental theories and applications
related to the academic study of translation. This book is considered an important
source in all levels of education of translators.
For this analysis, we use the fourth edition of Introducing Translation Studies:
Theories and Applications by Jeremy Munday and its main references (or main
sources). This book is divided into 12 chapters. Details and coverage of all the
chapters along with links to the content are provided on this page for reference.
In the first chapter on Introducing Translation Studies, Jeremy Munday lays
out the groundwork for what is a translation, what is translation studies, a brief
history of translation studies and the academic discipline and the interdisciplinary
nature of the field. After defining the concept of translation he proceeds on to provide
categories laid out by Roman Jakobson. Another important work cited is the Holmes
and Toury’s map of the discipline all the way to the van Doorslaer’s Map.
 Translation studies is an academic research area that has expanded
explosively in recent years. Translation was formerly studied as a language-learning
methodology or as part of comparative literature, translation ‘workshops’ and
contrastive linguistics courses, but the discipline as we now know it owes much to the
work of James S. Holmes, whose ‘The name and nature of translation studies’
proposed both a name and a structure for the field. The interrelated branches of
theoretical, descriptive and applied translation studies initially structured research in
the field. However, over time the interdisciplinarity of the subject has become more
evident and recent developments have seen increased specialization and the continued
importation of theories and models from other disciplines.
Much of western translation theory from Cicero to the twentieth century
centred on the recurring debate as to whether translations should be literal (word-for-
word) or free (sense-for-sense), a diad that is famously discussed by St Jerome in his
translation of the Bible into Latin. Controversy over the translation of the Bible was
central to translation theory in the west for over a thousand years. Early theorists
tended to be translators who presented a justification for their approach in a preface to
the translation, often paying little attention to (or not having access to) what others
before them had said. Dryden’s proposed triad of the late seventeenth century marked
the beginning of a more systematicand precise definition of translation, while
Schleiermacher’s respect for the foreign text was to have considerable influence over
scholars in modern times. Recently, there has been increased interest in the west in
Chinese discourse on translation, centred on the translation of Buddhist sutras and the
position of Yan Fu.
This chapter has examined important questions of translation raised by
linguistics in the 1950s and 1960s. The key terms are meaning and equivalence,
discussed by Roman Jakobson in 1959 and crucially developed by Nida, whose books
analyse meaning systematically and propose that a translation should aim for
equivalent effect. Despite the subsequent questioning of the feasibility of that goal,
Nida’s great achievement is to have drawn translation theory away from the stagnant
‘literal vs. free’ debate and into the modern era. His concepts of formal and dynamic
equivalence place the receiver in the centre of the equation and have exerted huge
influence over subsequent theoreticians, especially in Germany. In the next chapter,
we look at other scholars who have incorporated linguistics into the study of
translation.
The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of attempts at detailed taxonomies of
small linguistic changes (‘shifts’) in ST–TT pairs. Vinay and Darbelnet’s classical
taxonomy continues to exert influence today and was useful in bringing to light a
wide range of different translation techniques. However, like Catford, who in the
1960s applied a systematic contrastive linguistic approach to translation, theirs is a
static linguistic model. Fuzziness of category boundaries and the automatic counting
of shifts are problems that have continued to affect later attempts. Another approach
to the analysis of shifts came from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s, where
Levý, Popovicˇ and Miko paid greater attention to the translation of style.
Meanwhile, a different approach to the examination and explanation of translation
procedures has been afforded by cognitive theorists, starting with from the Paris
school of the 1960s and including Gutt (from relevance theory) and Bell.
Increasingly, such research methods have made use of technological advances (think-
aloud protocols, key-stroke records, eye-trackers), though methodological procedures
remain to be standardized.
Functionalist and communicative translation theories advanced in Germany in
the 1970s and 1980s moved translation from a static linguistic phenomenon to being
considered as an act of intercultural communication. Reiss’s initial work links
language function, text type, genre and translation strategy. Reiss’s approach was
later coupled to Vermeer’s highly influential skopos theory, where the translation
strategy is decided by the purpose of the translation and the function of the TT in the
target culture. Skopos theory is part of the model of translatorial action also proposed
by Holz-Mänttäri, who places professional commercial translation within a
sociocultural context, using the jargon of business and management. Translation is
viewed as a communicative transaction involving initiator, commissioner, and the
producers, users and receivers of the ST and TT. In this model, the ST is ‘dethroned’
and the translation is judged not by equivalence of meaning but by its adequacy to the
functional goal of the TT situation as defined by the commission. Nord’s model,
designed for training translators, retains the functional context but includes a more
detailed text-analysis model for the ST.
 CHAPTER III
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS
First book
For this first book it took merely about the possitiveness on this strenght we can
gives some of our critical and short analysis based on what we write in the previous
chapter that this book is quite complete as what the tittle meant “ Translation in ELT
from theory to practice, we give the big about what what our group like about this
book are this book is it demonstrates that from the first until in the end of these
chapter that this book has provided for the reader, we think that this book is good
enough to open the content of the study that it puts such as some basic competency,
brief description, focus, indicators, some of explanation, the importance of those
aspects and also a bunch of theories from many experts and the assessment point in
the end of the chapter and it has the Bibliography in the end of this book and then
every units in this book explain much as likely the elaboration between the theory
into the aplication for the practice one, and the last is about the bibliography in the
end of the book as the purpose to complete the resources.
After all these analysis and summarized this book, a little bit regretments that
we event ca not find the table of contente that this book should have in the opening
before all of the units come, and also one thing about the related each unit, for one
unit into another that we can see that the linkages among each units is not bind up
well so the previous materials does not related become once plot in this book, we
think it sould be better if the autors arrange it first before putting up these unit. And
we also consider about the points in each unit is basically has different perspective by
explaning the basic competence in this book. but all of the basic competence in each
unit has already put the achivement of the result for the goals in the center of the
subject instead of from theory to practice. That’s all our opinion for this book, Thank
you.
Second book
This is the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the
dynamic field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and fully up-to-date
overview of key movements and theorists within an expanding area of study, this
textbook has become a key source for generations of translation students on both
professional and university courses.
The latest research incorporated into each chapter, including linguistic
precursors, models of discourse and text analysis, cultural studies and sociology, the
history of translation, and new technologies a new chapter with guidelines on writing
reflective translation commentaries and on preparing research projects and
dissertations more examples throughout the text, revised exercises and updated
further reading lists throughout
This is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a comprehensive insight
into how translation studies has evolved, and is still evolving. It is an invaluable
resource for anyone studying this fascinating subject area.
This book is written in exceptionally clear and user-friendly style. To reflect
the nature of the link between translation theories and practice, Jeremy Munday has
added case studies in each chapter to offer practical examples of how theories can be
applied in the real world. The discussion and research points at the end of each topic
will be welcomed by students, teachers and researchers alike... Readers who may
have no previous knowledge of translation studies may also find the book interesting
and illuminating.
 CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
The first book is good enough to open the content of the study that it puts such as
some basic competency, brief description, focus, indicators, some of explanation, the
importance of those aspects and also a bunch of theories from many experts and the
assessment point in the end of the chapter and it has the Bibliography in the end of
this book and then every units in this book explain much as likely the elaboration
between the theory into the aplication for the practice one, and the last is about the
bibliography in the end of the book as the purpose to complete the resources.
But, we cannot find the table of contente that this book should have in the
opening before all of the units come, and also one thing about the related each unit.
The second book is better because considered an important source in all
levels of education of translators. This is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives
a comprehensive insight into how translation studies has evolved, and is still
evolving. It is an invaluable resource for anyone studying this fascinating subject
area.