Difficulties Encountering MA Students in Translating Newspaper Headlines from English into Arabic

Al–Falah, Thanaa Hindi Salih (2017) Difficulties Encountering MA Students in Translating Newspaper Headlines from English into Arabic. Masters thesis, جامعة الشرق الاوسط.

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Abstract

This study explored the difficulties which encounter M.A students in translating newspaper headlines.In particular, it aims to answer number of questions on the difficulties which encounter M.A students in translating news headlines and the reasons behind those difficulties, finally recommendations and suggestionswill be made to deal with these problems. To achieve the goal of the study a group of 40 M.A students (male and female) were selected .They were enrolled in M.A program in three Jordanian Universities. The Middle East University, Petra University, and AL-Zaytoona University during the second semester 2016-2017.The researcher designed a translation test which contained 30 news headlines to be translated from English into Arabic. The reacearcher also conducted semi structured interviews with experts in the field of translation and linguistics (four professors and four professional translators).The results revealed that those M.A students encountered many difficulties in translating news headline. These difficulties were attributed to the use of literal translation, inability to choose the correct equivalences, unawareness of the style and features of news headlines. Experts elaborated on the causes of these difficulties.Engaging students in training courses as well as expanding their knowledge of the target culture was recommended. Key words: Newspaper headlines, equivalence, target culture

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