DICTIONARIES LOOKUP STRATEGIES FOR ARABIC-ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Journal Title: Studii de Gramatica Contrastiva - Year 2013, Vol 19, Issue 19
Abstract
Although dictionaries are of paramount importance in academic translation course, they are always thought of as a double-edged sword. Voluminous grotesque translations are obviously indicators that translation students have used dictionaries incompetently. The data of the present study consists of translations by twenty undergraduate English students at Al-Quds University and Palestine Ahlyia University. The translations are examined in terms of the dictionary lookup strategies. The findings of the study show that the pitfalls in translation output are due to (1) addiction to dictionaries; (2) lack of comprehension of the Source Language (SL) text; (3) first meaning selection; (4) scant attention to the examples provided by dictionaries; (5) prioritising scanning over skimming; (6) a total disregard for collocations, idioms and proverbs; and (7) failure to grasp the contextualised meaning. Some dictionary lookup strategies that may help the student translator do the job as quickly and effectively as possible are suggested.
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Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh
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