Cultural Domains: Translation Problems

Alousque, Isabel Negro

doi:10.4995/rlyla.2009.740

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“…The analysis of the data views the participants' performance in translating these idioms used by Jordanian Arabic Southern Bedouin Area. Different criteria were used as the followings based on (Alousque 2009 literal translation which relates to conveying the meaning of the idiom from the source language into the target language in terms of word-for-word translation without referring to the sense of idiom in the source language. ii)…”

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“…Style is considered as combination of different aspect of a language such as culture, costumes, heritage, semantic, pragmatic, ect. Alousque (2009) figures out cultural words which require a cultural background to be correctly recognized and thus indicating translation problems. The problems that face translators are cultural problems results because the cultural differences and their ignorance of the culture of the target language and dialects.…”

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“…Translators were not aware of the different equivalence strategies used in translation to convey the appropriate meaning of these idioms. Alousque (2009) states the translators must get familiar with the different strategies of translation as 'loan', 'functional equivalence', 'descriptive equivalence', 'approximate equivalence'. III.…”

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Problematic issues in Translating Southern Bedouin Jordanian Arabic idioms into English

AlSmaihyeen

Abdo

2018

COES&RJ-JSS

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This study explores the problems facing English Language and Literature students at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in translating Arabic language idioms used by Arabic Jordanian Bedouin speakers into English. This study is a qualitative research included 20 Jordanian senior level students of the English department at the University of Al-Hussein Bin Talal. A list of 14 Arabic Jordanian southern Bedouin idioms used in this study. The participants were asked to translate these 14 idioms. These 14 idioms were asked to be translated by the 20 participants. Then, their answers were collected and analyzed and categorized into different types of translations (lateral translation, meaning translation, irrelevant translation, no translation at all) according to (

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Problematic issues in Translating Southern Bedouin Jordanian Arabic idioms into English

AlSmaihyeen

Abdo

2018

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“…Despite its value to EFL students, translation as a process has many difficulties, including assessment (Dreyer & Marcu, 2012;Munday, 2012;Sireci et al, 2006), cultural (Alousque, 2010;Pshenitsyn, 2011;Sheorey, 2012), curriculum design (Avval, 2013;Bicer, 2003 ;Razmjou, 2001), linguistic (Pshenitsyn, 2011;Remish, 2012;Sheorey, 2012;Solomatina, 2018), or pedagogical (Bingbing, 2011;He, 2012;Heping, 2011;Hongmei, 2010;Josipović, 2017;Nazari & Ghasemi, 2016;Yan, 2012;Zainudin & Awal, 2012). Many questions have arisen as a result of these issues about how to lay the foundation to translation as a construct among EFL students.…”

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Improving EFL Majors' Translation Competence Using Self-Regulated Learning -Based Program

Ebedy

2021

مجلة کلیة التربیة

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The main concern of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of developing a translation course based on the strategic self-regulated learning in improving EFL majors' translation competence. Adopting quasi-experimental design, the participants, consisting of 60 EFL majors at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Translation, Misr University for Science and Technology, were randomly selected and distributed equally to two groups, the experimental group and the control group. To fulfill the purpose of the study, a translation competence test was constructed and validated. Results revealed the effectiveness of the developed course in improving translation competence of the experimental group students. The results also showed that the experimental group students outperformed the control group on the posttest translation competence test. It is recommended that self-regulation training should be accorded adequate attention in EFL curriculum in order to cater for independence and life-long learning that meet the demands of the 21 st century. The study also called for adopting competence-based orientation in designing translation courses through making available training workshops for EFL majors and giving prominence to selecting appropriate strategies particularly those emphasizing autonomy in the learning process.

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“…The study revealed a poor skills level of translating cultural expressions and wrong translation strategies by the students as most of them tended to give a literal translation of the phrases rather than giving any equivalent meaning. Alousque (2009) studied the challenges in translating cultural items with different semantic range both in the source and target languages and the range of translation procedures used to explain their meaning through the analysis of the lexis from the French cultural domain of cooking. He concluded that there are some difficulties of translating those cultural lexis.…”

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English Translational Errors Encountered by Arab Natives

Ababneh¹

2016

IJEL

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This study aims to highlight errors in translating Arabic phrases and expressions into English. It is part of a research that attempts to establish some cultural connections between those translational mistakes and the embedded Arabic and Saudi religious and cultural factors that influence making such errors. To achieve the set goal, the researcher observed many written English signs around the city of Tabuk in a period of two years and then archived and analyzed the various translation mistakes collected from universities' announcements, religious flyers, hospital signs, bill board signs, shops and malls signs, personal signs...etc. The errors were classified into four categories: Singular/Plural, Sentence Structure and Syntax, Word Choice, and Spelling errors. Then a quiz was given to selected female English major students at the University of Tabuk; the quiz contained the same observed mistakes collected earlier. Therefore, the sample of the study was very diverse in its nature of Saudi Arabs and Arabs from other Arab countries that came to live and work in the city of Tabuk; while the students who took the quiz were all of Saudi nationality. It was concluded that the reasons Arab people who publish English translations fail to transfer the Arabic equivalence of English phrases and expressions are mainly due to literal translation and influencing cultural factors that make those people unfamiliar with the use of the right English words in their proper context.

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Cultural Domains: Translation Problems

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Problematic issues in Translating Southern Bedouin Jordanian Arabic idioms into English

Problematic issues in Translating Southern Bedouin Jordanian Arabic idioms into English

Improving EFL Majors' Translation Competence Using Self-Regulated Learning -Based Program

English Translational Errors Encountered by Arab Natives

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