Arab Educational Information Network

Translation is the most important topic and it has wide interesting nowadays, the current study aims at identifying and classifying errors which are made by students in their translation. It conducted on the fourth year college students studying at the English Department, College of Basic Education, Al-Mustansiriyha University; it was applied on 70 male and female students. The students are asked to translate a texts and sentences from English into Arabic and then the answers of students were analyzed according to a special scoring scheme which sets by the researcher. According to statistical analysis, the students made errors and faced some difficulties in their translation. Some of students were translated word by word into English. This phenomenon led them to come up with weak expressions in their translation. They took for granted that whatever written in the dictionary was absolutely appropriate and correct. At the end of the study, the researcher was put some recommendations and suggestions for further research. (Published Abstract)