June 6th

Academic Writing

6^th June 2007

Grammar Translation Method

Grammar Translation Method is kind of teaching technique which is usually used in teaching reading through translating the text. This technique has been changing in the practically way. Before in learning process, the teacher would translate the difficulties words into Indonesian, therefore the teacher was the active and the students would not be active in the class.

Nowadays GTM has been used to make the students more active in learning process. The teacher will give the synonym or antonym of the difficulties words from the text, so that the students will think about those words. This is a good way to make the students more creative.

By

Pu3

MPBI-X

WM Surabaya Catholic Univ.

Definition, April 30, 2007

Kanji is one of characters in Japanese which express not only sounds but also meanings. Even though some Kanji letters may have the same sound, each Kanji letter only carries one meaning, so the use of it totally erase misunderstandings. It’s poles apart with other characters, Hiragana and Katakana which can cause misunderstanding since they only express sounds but not the meanings. The example can be seen in the word こっき (kokki) which is written in Hiragana. In this way, without knowing the context, reader may get difficulty in understanding the meaning as こっき has two meanings, flag and sacrifice. However, when the word is written in Kanji, the meaning can be understood easily even without context. When it is written as 国旗 , it means flag; and when it is written as 克己 , it means sacrifice. For that reason, Kanji is commonly used in literature.

Ika Dian Sukmayanti

MPBI X

Unika Widya Mandala Surabaya