English Majors' Errors in Translating Arabic Endophora: Analysis and Remedy

Autor/in	Abdellah, Antar Solhy
Titel	English Majors' Errors in Translating Arabic Endophora: Analysis and Remedy
Quelle	(2007), S.26-30 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Form Classes (Languages); Semitic Languages; English (Second Language); Diagnostic Tests; Second Language Learning; Translation; Error Analysis (Language); Foreign Countries; College Students; Error Patterns; Language Tests; Second Language Instruction; Egypt + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Arabisch; Hebräisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Ausland; Collegestudent; Fehlertyp; Language test; Sprachtest; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ägypten
Abstract	Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley University tend to mistranslate the plural inanimate Arabic pronoun with the singular inanimate English pronoun. A diagnostic test was designed to analyze this error. Results showed that a large number of students (first year and fourth year students) make this error, that the error becomes more common if the pronoun is cataphori rather than anaphori, and that the further the pronoun is from its antecedent the more students are apt to make the error. On the basis of these results, sources of the error are identified and remedial procedures are suggested. Appended are: (1) The Diagnostic Translation Test; and (2) Transliteration Scheme. (Contains 1 table, 1 diagram, and 5 footnotes.) (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10