Difficulties that Yemeni students of English encounter in translating scientific texts from English into Arabic

الملخص EN

The aim of this study is to investigate the difficulties confronted by Yemeni students in translating scientific texts from English into Arabic.

The result showed that the majority of students found it hard to get the equivalent of the scientific terms that were used in the test.

It revealed that a great number of students used a method of neologisms intend at using pure Arabic vocabularies, while others preferred another methods which did not serve the Arabic language such as transcription; so they ended up with incorrect translation.

The analysis also emphasized that students' mistakes were due to their lack of knowledge of appropriate methods they to be used to translate scientific texts and to their unfamiliarity with various scientific terms.