การวิเคราะห์ข้อผิดพลาดในการแปลภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาเยอรมันของนิสิตวิชาโทภาษาเยอรมัน

Abstract

This research paper aims to study and analyses errors of translation from Thai to German and examine causes of the translation errors as found in the work of 20 fourth year German minor students at the Faculty of Humanities, Srinakharinwirot University who enrolled in the Basic German Translation (GM 421) during the first semester of the 2017 academic year. Data derived from a test on Thai to German translation. It was a 150-item test at the sentence level, which had been content validated by experts. The errors ranged from most to least were (1) seven aspects of grammar and structure including use of noun, use of tense, use of indirect object, word order, use of pronoun, use of passive voice and conditional form (2) word choice and (3) substantive adherence to the source language. The causes of the errors were from influence of the mother tongue, influence of the English language, which was the students’ first foreign language, and lack of understanding or ignorance of grammatical rules and sentence structure in German. The findings of this research may be used as a guide for the teaching and learning of a course in German translation in order to prevent and rectify problems related to translation on the part of the students. Further, the findings may be used by teachers to teach German writing skills.Keywords: error analysis, errors of translation, Thai to German translation