(Students should be able not only to generally speak English socializing and conversing but also to specifically express themselves performing higher-order thinking language functions giving opinions, reasoning for them, giving examples, defending their stance, attacking others’ ideas, winning their own ideas over others’, and so on; the following is an […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
(A presentation paper originally; left as such) Introduction: On Translating Of all the many definitions on translating, it can safely be defined as substituting a text in a source language (SL) with that in a target one (TL), the result showing similar semantic and pragmatic aspects. This causes the readers […]
Translating from Indonesian into English: Problems and Challenges
(A story crazily creatively re-invented about the origin of the name ‘Bangka’ in ‘Pulau Bangka’; told at a storytelling contest in Jakarta by a student, an icon of our Teen Academic English Program, Indra Cipta Putra Mandiri) Our ancestors are people who dare to travel vast seas and oceans in […]
“Money, bro!”
(Artikel populer) 1. Yang memplagiat; yang diplagiat. 2. Yang memplagiat; yang diplagiat. Bangsa Timur termasuk bangsa kita dikenal sebagai bangsa yang memiliki semangat kebersamaan yang tinggi. Ini dalam keseharian kehidupan, misalnya, ditunjukkan dalam semangat mengerjakan sesuatu secara gotong-royong, juga semangat memiliki sesuatu secara bersama-sama pula. Budaya posesif kolektif seperti ini […]