An investigation of difficulties facing Libyan EFL university students in translation : a case study of Benghazi University

الملخص EN

This study aim s to identify the difficulties that face Libyan EFL university students in tran slating texts from English to Arabie language.

It tries to find suitable solutions for such difficulties, which the fourth y ear students expérience.

The researcher used the analytical descriptive method to carry out this study.

The study population is the Libyan EFLuniversity students at Faculty of Arts - Benghazi University, in the academie year 2014\ 20 15.

The researcher selected randomly (50) students from the fourth year faculty of Arts - Al-Kufra, Benghazi university as a reasonable sample for this study.

A test which was composed of seven questions, was designed in o rder to gath er the data which explore the difficulties and problems that face these students.

Then the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) program was applied in the study.

At the end, the study came out with many results, but the most important one is that: Libyan students who specialized in English language at University of Benghazi - Al-Kufra branch, neglect the principles of translation.

The reason behind this is that, they study only one introductory course in translation during the four years of study