COMMON MISTAKES IN TRANSLATION PRACTICES BY STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN FELTE, ULIS, VNU

Abstract

The study aims at detecting and classifying the most common errors in third-year students’ translation at the Faculty of English language teacher education, University of Languages and International studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi. On the base of translation tasks by 25 students, the study has reached a conclusion of three error groups including: linguistic errors, comprehension errors and translation errors. Also, some pedagogical implications have been proposed for translation teachers to apply in their classes so as to minimize students’ errors during translation practice