The findings suggest the necessity of direct teaching of collocations, the use of The Collins WordbanksOnline, and designing bilingual collocation dictionaries. Of 445 lexical collocation errors found in the English writing, 321 (72%) were negative transfers of Indonesian lexical collocations into English. The students were asked to write a two-to three-page essay on an assigned topic. Data for the study were collected from essays written by 40 EFL university students majoring in English in Indonesia whose native language is Indonesian. The present study provides an empirical analysis on negative transfer made by Indonesian EFL students in lexical collocation and recommends practical ways to help students improve their competence in collocation. The ability to produce acceptable and natural expressions in English is closely related to the EFL students' competence in collocation-which words go together in normal usage. One of the most challenging problems for EFL students is to be able to express themselves not just grammatically but also acceptably and naturally in English in appropriate contexts. Keywords: BBC political texts, collocations, difficulties, strategies, translating The study concludes with some recommendations that can help students develop their competence of collocations. More importantly, the findings show that there is a significant difference among the means of all the students' responses in the strategies they used in translating the collocations. The findings also indicate that many MA students have a good knowledge of collocations, whereas most BA students show a lack of knowledge of collocations in both universities. However, approximation, elaboration and explication, and omission occupied the lowest rank in terms of frequency of use.
The findings reveal that many participants used synonymy and literal translation as primary strategies to render collocations followed by paraphrasing and transposition respectively. The participants were asked to translate English collocations into Arabic.
A questionnaire of 20 collocations taken from BBC political texts was designed and distributed to a sample of 80 students from two Jordanian universities: the University of Jordan and Yarmouk University. of English, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Abstract This paper investigates the most common difficulties, the different types of strategies used by the BA and MA students when translating collocations in political texts into Arabic. of English, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Radwan S.
Difficulties and Strategies in Translating Collocations in BBC Political Texts Khetam W.
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