Evaluating an Arabic-English machine translated text : an analytical and pedagogical approach

الملخص EN

The present study discussed tlie translation problems which Egyptian EFL undergraduates encountered when translating an Arabic source text into tlieir target language by using machine translation Data were collected based on an English machine translated text of an Arabic source text.

A Descriptive analytical technique was employed for the purpose of data analysis.

That is; tlie English machine translated text was analyzed m hgjit of both tlie Arabic source text and tlie appropriate English translated text.

Findings indicated various types of syntactic, lexical and grammatical problems affecting tlie learning of translation skifls by Egyptian EFL undergraduates.

Teaching implications suggested solutions for such problems.