The Difficulty of Translating Collocations from Arabic into English Encountered by a Sample of Arab Students

Jabak, Omar; Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla Syed; Mustapha, Nik Farhan

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“…The collocation errors presented in this section shows that students have little knowledge of collocations, so they choose the words that do not collocate with each other. This result is similar to the results of Arabic students' translation in Jabak, Abdullah, & Mustapha (2016). For example, in the second abstract, the author uses the word 'held', which does not collocate with the word 'method'.…”

Section: Study Ing British Lifestylesupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Collocation has been found to cause problems for EFL students all over the world, especially when they have to translate English collocations into their native language collocations, or from their native language collocations into English. In research for Arabic students, Jabak, Abdullah, and Mustapha (2016) have found that 71,86 % of the students could not translate Arabic collocations into equivalent collocations in English. Similarly, Rumanian students are also not able to translate English collocations into Rumanian and vice versa (Pârlog & Punga, 2017).…”

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The Translation of Lexical Collocations in Undergraduate Students’ Theses’ Abstract: Students Versus Google Translate

Karjo

Metta

2019

Lingua Cultura

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This research intended to compare the translations of lexical collocations found in the abstract section of students’ theses. The purposes were to find out the errors in translating lexical collocation either by Google Translate or student translator. The data were taken from twenty working papers of English Literature students at Binus University. The abstracts of these theses (in English and Indonesian) were then processed with Google Translate. Thus, there were four sets of data to analyze: (1) Students’ Text in Indonesian (STI), (2) Google Translate of STI in English (GTE), (3) Students’ Text in English (STE), and (4) Google Translate of STE in Indonesian (GTI). From the data, samples of collocations were taken and categorized based on Hill’s classification of lexical collocations. The lexical collocations found in the four sets of data were scrutinized, compared, and analyzed to find the errors in forms and meaning as well as in the translation. The results reveal that errors in translating collocations are mostly made by Google Translate rather than the students. This research implies that Google Translate still needs improvement in translating collocations, but it is also possible that translation errors occur because of students’ misuse of collocation.

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Section: Study Ing British Lifestylesupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Translation of Lexical Collocations in Undergraduate Students’ Theses’ Abstract: Students Versus Google Translate

Karjo

Metta

2019

Lingua Cultura

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“…The reasons behind that could be returned to the lack of vocabulary store, the misunderstanding of the item needed to be translated,and the misusing of the dictionary. This result goes in complete harmony with the results of Al-Sohbani and Muthanna 2013, and Jabak, Abdullah, and Mustapha (2016).…”

Section: Findings Related To the First Research Questionsupporting

confidence: 88%

The Most Common Translation Problems Encounter the Saudi Students in Translating Selected Arabic Literary Items and their Point of Views behind these Problems

Ta'amneh

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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The current study aimed to investigate the most common translation problems that encountered the Saudi students in translating some of the literary items from Arabic into English. In addition, the study tried to investigate the most difficult terms that the students faced while translating them. Moreover, it aimed to explore the participants’ point of views behind such translation problems. To achieve the purpose of the study, a translation test, which involved 20 items and expressions, was prepared in advance. Furthermore, an interview was made to the participants to ask them about their point of views concerning the reasons behind encountering such translation problems. The sample of the study consisted of 15 male fourth year English-majored university students, who were chosen purposefully, at the University College of Taymaa in the first semester of the academic year 2017/2018 in Saudi Arabia. The design of the study was a qualitative as well as quantitative method. The data that were obtained from the participants’ answers in the translation test as well as the participants’ point of views in the interview were analyzed using the appropriate statistical analyses. The findings of the study showed that the students’ achievement in translating the items of the terms of address was the best compared with their results in the other two groups (lexical and cultural). Moreover, the analysis of the students’ interviews indicated that the lack of practice and lack of translation courses are a main reason in facing such these problems. Based on the findings, the researcher presented some recommendations and suggestions to develop students’ translation competence such as increasing the number of the translation courses that are presented to the students in their studying to have more practice in the process of translation. Moreover, more concentration should be given to the lexical, cultural, and terms of address problems in translation. Besides, students must be trained on how to use the bilingual dictionaries in the process of translation to get the intended meaning while rendering from Arabic into English and vice versa.

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“…The result reveals that 70% of the students face difficulties in the translation of English collocations into Arabic due to different reasons such difficulty of generalization, variability of collocations and cultural idiomatic collocations. Jabak, Abdullah & Mustapha (2016) conduct their study to explore the difficulty in translating collocations from Arabic into English. the study data reveals that the majority of the students could not translate collocations correctly because they adopted literal translation.…”

Section: Translation Of Collocationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collocation Translation Errors From Arabic Into English: A Case Study of Naguib Mahfouz’s Novel “Awlad Haratina”

Obeidat

Mahadi

2019

IJHPL

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The purpose of this analysis is to understand the notion of translation errors while translating collocations from Arabic into English. The translation errors are found in the Arabic novel “Awlad Haratina” which is written by Naguib Mahfouz. The problem of translating collocations and the reasons behind those problems are studied based on Baker’s model of collocational errors which are the engrossing effect of source text (ST) patterning, misinterpreting the meaning of ST collocations, the tension between accuracy and naturalness, cultural-specific collocation and marked collocation in the source text. descriptive qualitative method is used as the method of this study. 71 errors are examined accordingly to find out the reason behind committing translation errors while translating collocation. The study reveals that the tension between accuracy and naturalness, cultural-specific collocation are the main reasons behind committing errors. As a result, the study finds that translators should pay more attention to the notion of collocation before the process of translation.

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The Difficulty of Translating Collocations from Arabic into English Encountered by a Sample of Arab Students

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

The Translation of Lexical Collocations in Undergraduate Students’ Theses’ Abstract: Students Versus Google Translate

The Translation of Lexical Collocations in Undergraduate Students’ Theses’ Abstract: Students Versus Google Translate

The Most Common Translation Problems Encounter the Saudi Students in Translating Selected Arabic Literary Items and their Point of Views behind these Problems

Collocation Translation Errors From Arabic Into English: A Case Study of Naguib Mahfouz’s Novel “Awlad Haratina”

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