The Effects of Morph Syntactic Knowledge on English Foreign Learners Translating Abilities (Case study offourth year students)

Abstract

This study aimsat investigating the impact of morphology and syntax on English Foreign learners translating abilities. The researcher adopted analytical descriptive method which combined both qualitative and quantitative analysis. One instrumentwas used for data collection a test for the (30 students).The data obtained from the sample of the students provided answers to the research questions.The data were analyzed by using the SPSS program. Some of the most important results which the study came up with are; the learners have a real problem resulting from the lack of the awareness of these components: conjunctions, prepositions, and subject verb agreement which affected their translating abilities. The study also offered some recommendations the most important of which are the study can be extended to include larger number and different levels. The researcher recommended that further researches have to be conducted in these areas.Teachers of English should give more exercises to overcome the problematic areasconjunctions, subject –verb agreement and prepositions.