Problems Encountered Translating English Clichés into Arabic

Abstract

This study presented here has been designed to shed some light on problems of rendering English clichés and examine the ability of the students in translating English expressions into Arabic. The quality of translation depends on the translator`s knowledge, competence, cultural background and awareness of a number of factors relevant to the source text (ST) such as context, culture influence among others. This certainly influence lexical choices that serve the purpose of the language text (SL). For achieving this purpose, the study is made up of two parts, the first is theoretical and concerns translation, its definition and problems confronted students when translation clichés. The second part is a practical, and concerned with the analysis of results of the test given to the students who were studying in the Department of English Language in Faculty and Arts and Science in Qeminis. The test consists of seventh questions English Clichés, where the students were required to translate and choose the closest equivalent of the Arabic. Their translation will be investigated and analyzed, the resulted that found will be showed at the end of this work