Common Errors in Translation of Arabic Nominal Sentences to Tamil

M.H.A. Munas
Additional contact information
M.H.A. Munas: Department of Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 06, issue 02, 324-331

Abstract: Nominal sentence is the special character of Arabic Language. Non-Arabic speaking students of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka who have different language background are facing difficulties in translating from Arabic to Tamil. Even though, they have studied Arabic in Arabic colleges in Sri Lanka for 5-7 years, and thus Tamil is their mother tongue. Thus, this research aims to identify the grammar errors when translating nominal sentences to Tamil and to rely the reasons for them. To this, the research uses analytical descriptive methodology through quantitative approach. It uses questionnaire for primary data among the undergraduates of the Department of Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. At the same time, secondary data were gathered from researches, books, articles, website articles. The research finds that the undergraduate have the enough theoretical knowledge about the nominal sentence. At the same time, in the practical part, they are neutral level in writing a nominal sentences, in finding the error from them a, and in translating them into Tamil. Hence, the practical part is difficult for the undergraduates than theoretical part.

Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/ ... -issue-2/324-331.pdf (application/pdf)
https://rsisinternational.org/virtual-library/pape ... -sentences-to-tamil/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bcp:journl:v:06:y:2022:i:02:p:324-331

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science is currently edited by Dr. Nidhi Malhan

More articles in International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science from International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Pawan Verma ().