Abstract
An Error Analysis Case Study: Out of Context Translation of Persian Sentences into English for Elementary EFL Learners
Highlights
Language, as a means of communication, permits people to convey their ideas and represent their communicative aims. Catford (1978) outlines language as a kind of shaped human behavior
This study aims at analyzing errors committed by the Iranian elementary EFL learners
The results indicated that errors in the use of articles were the most frequent (20% of the total number of errors), followed by the wrong uses of verbs (18.66%), and the wrong use of tense (10.66%)
Summary
As a means of communication, permits people to convey their ideas and represent their communicative aims. Catford (1978) outlines language as a kind of shaped human behavior. As a means of communication, permits people to convey their ideas and represent their communicative aims. Catford (1978) outlines language as a kind of shaped human behavior. It is believed to be the most important way of interacting in their social situations. The degree to which college students are in touch with English sentences (more frequently than they were in senior high school) shows us how essential the process of translation can be. Without translation, forthcoming experts will be left behind in following the progress of science if they cannot read foreign language texts on their own (Widyamartaya, 1989). With regard to the linguistic or non-linguistic difficulties that a translator may encounter, Nida (1964) states: But difficulties and thanklessness notwithstanding, if the translator is to produce acceptable translation he must have [an] excellent background in the source language and [at] the same time must have control over the resources of the language into which he [is] translating, he cannot match words from a dictionary, he must in [the] real sense create a new linguistic form to carry concept expressed in the source language. (p. 64)
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