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- Title
Figurative Idiomatic Competence: An Analysis of Jordanian Graduate Students of English.
- Authors
Abushunar, Majd
- Abstract
This study investigates the figurative idiomatic competence of Jordanian graduate students of English. It mainly focuses on students' strategies and errors when translating English idiomatic expressions into Arabic. The study analyzes the performance of two groups of graduate students in a translation task. The first group includes 18 M.A. students, whereas the second includes 18 Ph.D. students. The findings of the study indicate that Ph.D. students have slightly higher idiomatic competence than M.A. students, though the two groups perform poorly in the translation task. The findings also suggest that graduate students of English often rely on the context, metaphor, and knowledge of L1 to approach the meaning of English fixed figurative expressions. Furthermore, the findings show that paraphrasing and giving an Arabic equivalent are the most common translation strategies applied by graduate students.
- Subjects
ENGLISH idioms; IDIOMS; PHRASEOLOGY; GRADUATE students; LINGUOSTYLISTICS
- Publication
Language in India, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article