Effect of Translation on the Students Proficiency in English at the Faculty of Economics and Community Development.

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the effect of translation on the sample's English proficiency, and shed a light on the problems associated with translation skills. English and Arabic texts that are specialized in a certain fields have some ambiguous words and sentence structures, this is where the difficulty comes across when students attempt to translate them. These are done through a programme which has been designed by the researcher for this purpose. Besides the programme, the researcher has also used the tests to measure the effect of the programme. The pretest before teaching the programme and the posttest after the treatment. The questionnaire has also been used for the students to respond to. The researcher followed the analytical descriptive method of data collection which comprises tools , sample, procedures. The main findings of the study are that the study has manifested that translation has a positive effect on improving the students' English proficiency. The findings were not only useful to students , but also have some pedagogical implications and consequently of some values to language teachers and linguists. Based on the previously stated findings the researcher recommends that there should be translation courses to support the students' English proficiency. New technologies are used to enrich and reinforce students’ translation. Teaching translation is recommended to implement intensive training in both English and Arabic languages. Translation should be taught to all students of Peace University, teachers have to concentrate in pointing similarities and differences between the two languages. The study suggested to use computer authored software in training University students on translation skills, and to generalize teaching translation in all Sudanese universities. The present programme is designed by the researcher could be adopted by Peace University . Lecturers of English at the Sudanese universities at large could make use of the programme to develop the English proficiency of their students