THE EFFICACY OF ERROR ANALYSIS ON TEACHING TRANSLATION

Error analysis developed as a branch of applied linguistics and as an alternative to contrastive analysis. It may be carried out in order to identify strategies learners use in language learning, recognize the causes of learner errors and obtain information on common difficulties in language learning as an aid to teaching and/or in the preparation of teaching materials. Despite the fact that it had its heyday in the 1960s, nowadays it can be illuminating for pedagogy due to its high practicality. Experience reveals that intermediate and even advanced foreign language learners have recourse to their mother tongue resources whenever they are in shortage of L2 patterns and vocabulary. The aim of this paper is to diagnose and remedy the university students' problems in the process of translation. To do so, we have given students a test comprising a set of intentionally knotty Persian sentences to be rendered into English. The analysis of the data pool reveals that the majority of participants have transferred SL structures into the TL texts negatively. The outcome of the study can bring about valuable implications for teachers of translation how to balance their instruction based on the students' present proficiency rather than they are exposed to overly subjective and abstract ideas and theories