Difficulties that Jordanian undergraduate students encounter when translating English prepositions

العناوين الأخرى

الصعوبات التي يواجهها طلبة البكالوريوس الأردنيون في ترجمة حروف الجر باللغة الإنجليزية

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Awdat, Asma Sulayman

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Abd al-Latif, Majid

أعضاء اللجنة

Abu Shihab, Ibrahim
al-Zayid, Nurma Nawwaf

الجامعة

جامعة الشرق الأوسط

الكلية

كلية الآداب و العلوم

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2015

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study aimed at investigating the difficulties that Jordanian undergraduate students encounter when translating English prepositions.

Particularly, it aimed at answering the following questions: 1.

What are the difficulties that English language undergraduate students encounter when translating English prepositions? 2.

What are the causes behind these difficulties? 3.

What solutions can be made to ease these difficulties? To achieve the goals of this study, the researcher selected a sample comprised 20 undergraduate students who were enrolled in the B.A programme at Middle East University during the second semester 2014/2015.

The researcher designed a translation test that consisted of 20 items.

The items were extracted from different sites on the internet with some modifications.

BA students were asked to translate the underlined items which include the prepositions.

The items were translated into Arabic.

The researcher also conducted interviews with experts in the field of translation to compile more information.

The results of the study revealed that undergraduate students face different kinds of difficulties when translating English prepositions, including mistranslations, comprehension-related errors.

The results of study also revealed that the lack of knowledge about the different meanings of the prepositions and their multiple usages, unfamiliarity with the prepositions and not taking the context into consideration are the causes behind these difficulties.

The results also revealed that the lack of courses in translation and poor researching skills might stand behind these difficulties.

The study recommended offering the students courses in translation.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

76

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-691707