The Effect of Mother Tongue (Arabic) on EFL learners’ Translation. A case of Third year LMD students of English at Mohamed kheider University of Biskra

Abstract

Abstract Using mother tongue become an effective factor in enhancing students translation skill it gives them the opportunity to use the target language fluently. In addition, a mother tongue gives learners a chance to use the language naturally and to play a greater role in building students translation. According to this study, we hypothesize that EFL learners need to use their mother tongue during the courses which can help them certainly to develop their translation. So in order to confirm this hypothesis, we investigated this study through a classroom observation and classroom discussion with third year LMD students and an interview with teachers of theme and version at the department of English at Biskra University. Moreover this study aims at showing the impact of mother tongue on developing the learners „translation. Our present study is divided into two main parts a Theoretical part that includes two chapters in which we made a general definition of mother tongue and some important elements that include it. We also, discussed the different aspects of the translation, and gave a detailed description of the difficulties that EFL learners face during learning a foreign language. Moreover the data analyzed in the third chapter showed that both learners and teachers consider mother tongue as an important factor in enhancing learners‟ translation in FL classroom. So, EFL learners need to use mother tongue as a first step that helps them to find the suitable meaning of expressions in the target language to get their weaknesses. Keywords :Mother Tongue, Foreign Language, EFL Learners, Foreign Language