COMMON CHALLENGES IN VIETNAMESE – ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH MAJORED JUNIORS AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY IN VIET NAM

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Nowadays, English is a language that people around the world use to communicate and transfer messages to each other. In addition, English is also the dominant business language and it has become almost a necessity for people to speak English if they are to enter a global workforce. Research from all over the world shows that cross-border business communication is most often conducted in English. Besides, no one can deny the importance of translation in the global village, since its beginning, translation has played an indispensable role of transferring messages across the languages. In the era of internationalization, when the countries tend to integrate for the whole development, they would cooperate by the contracts or economic texts easier thanks to translation. Recently, there has been more emphasis on the improvement of the students’ translation, the focus of this research is on Vietnamese – English translation, which is said to be an indispensable subject that contributes to the success of Vietnamese who learn English. As a result, this study aims at investigating the common difficulties that English majored juniors at Tay Do University encounter when learning Vietnamese – English translation. The participants were fifty-six students of English class, course IX at Tay Do University. The three main instruments were questionnaire, interview paper and the test. The findings of the research would point out the students’ difficulties in Vietnamese – English translation (collocation, part of speech and idea arrangement). Thanks to the results, the possible reasons of these problems were figured out and the useful ways to improve students’ translating skill also were suggested.

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