THE PROBLEM OF FINDING EQUIVALENT WORDS WHILE TRANSLATING FOR ENGLISH-MAJORED STUDENTS (HIGH QUALITY PROGRAM) COURSE 45

Nguyen Huynh Ngoc Loan, Ly Tuyet Nhi, Le Ma Ngoc Quy, Nguyen Diem Tuyet Trinh

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As the translation profession has grown in popularity, so has freelance translating. Along with the modern lifestyle, young people are increasingly abusing the borrowing of words, which has an influence on translation students. Through research to find out the difficulties students are facing and help translation students find solutions to problems in the process of translating from the source language to the target language. This research mainly focuses on the problem of the process while translators are working to find a synonym or the word that has a close meaning to the source language. In terms of research methodologies, the study concentrated on surveying students from the 45th course in order to identify problems and devise effective remedies. This research will accomplish the following goals: review papers, perform questionnaire surveys of English-majored students about solutions when significant words and phrases cannot be found while compiling, and give ideas to fix the difficulties discovered in order to increase students' translation capacity. The questions are designed to meet the objectives of this research. In addition, the study also aims to clarify the connection between learning and practicing the knowledge of students in major English studies. The study had well-prepared to do the survey and see their expressions after doing the survey and what they expressed about their perceptions toward English in translation. And what would they really do if they are in a practical situation?

 

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problems in translation, difficulties, synonyms, knowledge, English study, practice, equivalence, meaning, grammar, culture

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