Impact of Arabic as a mother tongue on translating English Relative pronouns : a contrastive study

الملخص EN

Pronouns represent a basic and very important part of building sentences.

They are used to prevent repetition of the first noun to which they refer.

Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of Arabic as a mother tongue on translating English relative pronouns.

To achieve this aim the study touches the similarities and differences between both language.

The most important findings are that many students face difficulty in translating English relative pronouns.

Moreover, similarities between English and Arabic facilitate the process of translating English relative pronouns.

It has also been found that knowledge of differences between relative pronouns in English and Arabic improve EFL students performance in translation.

The study ends with a summary of the main concluding remarks that highlight the main areas of difficulties in understanding relative pronouns in English.