Meaning

To translate language one word at a time..

Example Sentences

But Mr. Shedd would have the boy “transverbalize” to acquire a feeling for the Latin order.

Thus they may learn strictly idiomatic French and attain some spoken French that is not merely English transverbalized.

The great majority of pupils confess that they do not even try to read the Latin; they begin at once to translate or to decipher or to transverbalize.[…]5 Translating (that is, transverbalizing) a series of Latin sentences—almost meaningless in themselves and without any discoverable connection with each other.[…]And we must train them in habits of fitting response other than merely transverbalizing the printed or spoken word.

He is not reading but deciphering, not translating but "transverbalising".[…]The matter of critical importance is that there shall be no transverbalizing the passage, or translation in the ordinary school use of that term.[…]divert it into a process of acquiring deciphering or transverbalizing ability.

However, the next time I simply indicated the beginning of the sentence to prevent word-calling, or transverbalizing, which many teachers mistake for “reading back,” and to assist in the development of a wide eye-span, so necessary in good reading and absolutely essential to the stenographer in making perfect transcripts.

The so-called translation ability in which a pupil learns to use a lexicon to decipher the meaning of a page is really ‘transverbalizing.’ He may become skillful, but he is still deciphering, not reading.

In the first place, I do not mean “translation” ability, which is normally only transverbalizing, a game involving a lexicon, a nimble wit, some shrewdness of judgment, a good memory and external pressure of some sort.

He proceeds haltingly and after long and laborious effort to build up a deciphering transverbalizing ability falsely called translation.[…]That is, pupils who transverbalize the material written in the text will be inclined to do so likewise in reading supplementary material written in the foreign language; pupils who have difficulty in locating material in the text will experience the same thing in regard to supplementary content, etc.

Word Forms

• transverbalizes
• transverbalizing
• transverbalized

Synonyms for transverbalize

When Should You Use Transverbalize?

Use transverbalize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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