Social and Affective Learning Strategies, Coping Strategies, EFL Undergraduate Students, Foreign Language, Speaking Anxiety

Abstract

Cultural translation has become one of the common problems in translation for both students and translators hence; the aim of the study is to unveil the types of cultural translation problems. It aims to investigate the effectiveness of translation strategies and technique in dealing with the problems .Therefore, the researcher hypothesizes that the use of translation strategies and techniques may help EFL students to overcome their translation problems. A descriptive research was carried out (qualitative and quantitative) .The researcher uses two data collection to check the validity of the hypothesis. A questionnaire for thirty five students from third year EFL who were chosen randomly and a translation test. As result the interpretations of gathered data revealed that the translation become difficult when it includes the cultural elements and experiences such as Idioms and Proverbs that hamper students from making an adopted translation .In addition using the translation strategies and techniques can solve cultural translation problems .Thus it can be concluded that the research hypothesis was confirmed and validated