An investigation into L1 interference in Lao EFL students’ writing and translation for curriculum and teaching improvement

Journal on English as a Foreign Language Pub Date : 2022-08-06 DOI:10.23971/jefl.v12i2.4105

Khamphone Duangpaserth, Yommala Meunviseth, Sonexay Chanboualapha

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L1 interference in Lao students’ English writing and translation is widely believed to be a source of errors, but it has not been taken into account. As a result, students’ English becomes interlanguage which is considered as an error. This research aimed at investigating the students’ errors in English writing and translation. To collect data, writing and translation tests were administered to 213 (= 30%) EFL university students in the Department of English Language (DEL) in a university in Vientiane Capital, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The data were annually analyzed, categorized and counted up participants making errors in percentage. It took approximately six months to finish analyzing errors in 213 English paragraphs and 213 translation-test papers. Both grammatical and lexical errors in sentence level were found due to direct translation word for word from Lao into English. It was also found the percentage of participants making errors in writing and translation was not much different. The results could be used in the curriculum and teaching improvement.

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母语干扰老挝语学生写作和翻译的课程与教学研究

人们普遍认为，老挝学生英语写作和翻译中的母语干扰是造成错误的一个原因，但这一点并未得到重视。因此，学生的英语成为中介语，这被认为是一种错误。本研究旨在调查学生在英语写作和翻译中的错误。为了收集数据，对老挝人民民主共和国首都万象的一所大学英语语言系的213名(= 30%)英语大学生进行了写作和翻译测试。这些数据每年都会被分析、分类，并以百分比计算参与者的错误率。对213个英文段落和213份翻译试卷的错误进行分析，耗时约6个月。由于将老挝语逐字直接翻译成英语，在句子层面上发现了语法和词汇上的错误。研究还发现，参与者在写作和翻译上犯错误的比例差别不大。研究结果可用于课程和教学的改进。

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