The Effectiveness of a Suggested Programme in Developing Translation Skills of Faculty of Education Students

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to design a programme and to test its effectiveness in developing translation skills of Faculty of Education students in Egypt. The sample of the study consisted of 140 students selected randomly from Faculty of Education at Beni-Suif including both males and females distributed randomly between the experimental and control groups. The two groups were pretested using a translation test prepared by the researcher. The experimental-group students studied the suggested programme. The control-group students were not exposed to such a treatment. The posttest was administered after that. Statistical analyses of the data indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the preadministration of the translation test. Significant differences were found at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental and control group students in the post administration of the test in favour of those of the experimental. There were significant differences at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental-group students in the pre and post administrations of the test in favour of the post. No significant differences were found between the mean scores of the control-group students in the pre and post administrations of the test. Similarly, no significant differences were found between the mean scores of male and female students in the experimental group in the post administration of the test. The programme proved to be effective in developing translation skills of Faculty of Education students with a gain ratio of 1.04. Conclusions, recommendations and suggestions for further studies were forwarded.