University students with a low level in textual translation using fourth year students of educational college as a model

Abstract EN

This study aims at investigating the causes of a low level in textual translation that students of English department encounter, and determining college students attitudes in Arabic and English translation.

It is hypothesized that students of English department have different attitudes concerning the causes of the low level in textual translation.

Teaching method used in textual translation is the main reason concerned a low level in students' ability in textual translation.

The study is limited to textual translation taught to fourth year students English department College of Education for human sciences University of Tikrit for the academic year 2020-2021.

After completing the questionnaire to the selected sample and analyzing data collected, the most important of results of the study argues that the main reason behind students weakness is the method used in teaching translation and the time devoted for translation activities.

Also, special attention is paid for translation for teaching in general and textual translation in particular because most of the students believe that it reflects the culture of the target language more than other types of translation such as free and literary translation, a questionnaire is constructed for EFL leamers so as to verify the hypotheses of the Current study and show their opinions about the reasons of low level in textual translation.

Then a sample of twenty college students was chosen.

Key words: interlinear, parameter, population, protocol, simple, verbose