Analysis of students' errors: the case of headlines  

Oleh:

Khodabandeh, Farzaneh

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 3 no. 1 (2007), page 6-21.
Topik: error analysis; headline; translation; syntactic and lexical levels
Fulltext: Untitled2.pdf (357.87KB)

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This study intended to shed light on some problems which students face in translating headlines. For this purpose, 58 male and female graduate students of English were asked to take part in the present research. They were given a test which included thirty Persian and thirty English headlines and were asked to translate them. All the students' translations were analyzed in order to investigate possible cross linguistic problems in translating headlines. From the first analysis of the translated Persian headlines, it was concluded that the participants had grammatical and lexical errors in their translations. The second analysis of the translated Persian headlines showed that the participants had inadequate knowledge of the English headlines rules. The analysis of the translated English headlines revealed that the participants' chief difficulties were grammatical followed by discoursal and lexical types. This study has significance to teachers and syllabus designers.

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