Analysis of morphological errors on the Sudanese University Translation Students' Performance (English – Arabic)‎

الملخص EN

Morphological errors may have a bad impact when translating texts from one language into another.

This paper is an attempt to analyze such errors on the Sudanese university translation students' performance using English and Arabic languages.

The paper aimed at identifying the common morphological difficulties that the targeted students face when translating Arabic sentences into English and vice versa.

It also shed light on some differences between English and Arabic morphological systems.

The descriptive and analytical methods were used to achieve the objectives of this paper.

The targeted students were tested and many types of morphological errors in their work were found, described and analyzed.

It was found out that Sudanese university translation students face morphological difficulties in translation from English into Arabic and vice versa.

The nature of these two languages caused difficulties that lead to such errors.

It was recommended that Sudanese university translation students need to be helped mastering English and Arabic morphology in order to perform a good translation, free from the errors mentioned above.