Undergraduates' difficulties in translating some Arabic collocational lexical items with regard to the production of verb-noun English collocation
Other Title(s)
صعوبات ترجمة بعض المفردات المعجمية لدى الطلاب الجامعيين غير الخريجين بالاعتماد على نتاج المتلازم اللفظي الإنجليزي الاسم + الفعل
Joint Authors
Matir, Ahmad Said
al-Hubaishi, Ausan Ahmad
Source
Electronic Journal of University of Aden : Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences
Issue
Vol. 1, Issue 1 (30 Apr. 2020), pp.10-17, 8 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2020-04-30
Country of Publication
Yemen
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
This study aimed to investigate the knowledge of undergraduate students in rendering a range of Arabic lexical collocations into English in different contexts properly, depending on the students' mental linguistic repertoire.
it also examined the strategies practiced in their translation to come up with the proper collocation.
the study used two main tools.
a questionnaire was responded by students and teachers, also a test for students only.
the participants were thirty (30) Yemeni students studying at the department of English, faculty of education–saber and six (6) of the translation course university teachers.
the students' knowledge of collocations was measured by a translation test of three Arabic lexical collocational items ( ضرب - حصر- تخفيف ) which were contextualized in fifteen sentences, each of which contained a verb- noun collocation.
the results of the statistical analysis showed that there was a negative knowledge of collocations and that the third year b.a.
students face difficulty in finding out the exact equivalents and collocation.
they were not collocationally competent and they really found difficulty in selecting the words that come together to form good English sentences.
therefore, they violated the system of collocations.
as a result, they were not able to produce correct English sentence.
the results also showed that the students tend to depend on different language strategies to facilitate their translation such as l1 transfer, synonymy, avoidance and paraphrasing.
these strategies lead to poor English translation.
accordingly, some suggestions are put forward to overcome the stated problems.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Hubaishi, Ausan Ahmad& Matir, Ahmad Said. 2020. Undergraduates' difficulties in translating some Arabic collocational lexical items with regard to the production of verb-noun English collocation. Electronic Journal of University of Aden : Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences،Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.10-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1414883
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Hubaishi, Ausan Ahmad& Matir, Ahmad Said. Undergraduates' difficulties in translating some Arabic collocational lexical items with regard to the production of verb-noun English collocation. Electronic Journal of University of Aden : Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 2020), pp.10-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1414883
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Hubaishi, Ausan Ahmad& Matir, Ahmad Said. Undergraduates' difficulties in translating some Arabic collocational lexical items with regard to the production of verb-noun English collocation. Electronic Journal of University of Aden : Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences. 2020. Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.10-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1414883
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 16
Record ID
BIM-1414883