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BILINGUAL TRANSLATION: A TOOL FOR THE APPRECIATION

OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

An Undergraduate Research
Presented to the Faculty of Education
Gabriel Taborin College of Davao Foundation, Inc.

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree of
BACHELOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION MAJOR IN ENGLISH

Researchers:

Bonotan, Fortune Angel I.

Florendo, Lester Jhon L.
Adeno, Joshua A.
Alicaba, Arce P.

November 2018
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to God, our gracious and

heavenly father, for giving us the power of patience, strength and keen interest in the

process of making this research entitled “Bilingual Translation: A Tool for the

Appreciation of English Literature.”

There are a lot of people around us who helped us with all their knowledge and

effort for the completion of our project:

To our validators: Mr. Ruben B. Infiesto, MAEd., Mrs. Janeth F. Balinggao

MAEd., with the help of Mr. Charlie L. Aceron and Mrs. Rheva V. Coronel for their very

constructive criticisms and suggestions for our questionnaire;

To our dear English teachers; Ms. Cindy Buhian, MAEd, Ms. Mary Ann Cagay,

Mrs. Jelyn U. Samiliano, for their untiring support and time for sharing their knowledge

in preparing for our research papers and defense;

To Mrs. Donnabel T. Libadisos, our program head, for allowing us to conduct an

interview to the selected first year students of our institution. Dr. Purification S. Yambao,

Dean of Education, for the supplemental advises and constant support in this partaking;

To our loving parents who were always there giving us their unending love,

concern, financial support and care. Our joy knows no bounds in expressing our cordial

gratitude for them; and

Special thanks to Mr. Billy Anthony Velasco for recommending a set of validators

to this study and his generosity and benevolence, and to the Palaca and Florendo

families for providing the venue during the production of this research.
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We humbly extend all our thanks to all concerned people who co-operated with

us in this regard.

May God be praised and glorified in our endeavor!

-Researchers
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ABSTRACT

This study is entitled “Bilingual Translation: A Tool to Appreciate English

Literature” is a study of bilingual translation approach. The design used in this research

was qualitative descriptive. In the accomplishment of this purpose, the researchers

conducted their study with the use of an in-depth interview with 10 participants who are

students of Gabriel Taborin College of Davao Foundation, Inc. The interview was

guided with three main questions and each main question has three to four sub-

questions. The process used to analyze the participants’ answers was thematic

analysis. Out from the ten interviews, there were four emerging themes which are:

difficulty of terms used in literature; bilingualism is a tool for successful comprehension;

poor comprehension leads to less interest in literature; and self-efforts in improving

English skills. The results of the interview with the students proved that bilingual

translation is indeed a tool to appreciate English literature.