NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSIT FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ENGLISH G lò % A> z= 9, Q 4 za ' Ƒ $— am run LUONG PHUONG ANH Business English 61A RESEARCH ON LINGUISTIC DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ECONOMIC NEWS FROM ENGLISH Supervisor: Le Thuy Linh, MTESOL Hanoi, April 2023 Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I have gotten a great deal of assistance, advice, direction, and encouragement from numerous teachers, friends, and family members in the course of producing this graduation paper. It is a big pleasure for me. To begin with, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Ms. Le Thuy Linh - M.
- Lecturer of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, National Economics University, for her constant support, various materials, invaluable advice, and insightful feedback on chapter draughts that enabled me to complete this research. Without her assistance, this would have been impossible. In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to National Economics University for providing us with a professional learning environment and facilities, as well as to all the teachers in the Faculty of Foreign Languages for their useful lessons, teaching, guidance, experience sharing with a kind heart and wholehearted instruction, as well as for their enthusiasm and sympathies to help us become better people than we are now. Iam particularly proud of my family and friends.
They are always by my side, offering me support and encouragement during my studies. I wish to express my deepest appreciation to everyone who helped me complete this graduation paper. Lastly, it is an honour for me to convey my appreciation to everyone who provided me with helpful advise and support. Without these aids, I could not effectively complete my graduation paper.
Your assistance and encouragement serve as motivation for me to complete my research. Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the development of translation resources and services around the globe in the last few decades, the importance and necessity of translators' labour has become very clear. The importance of language translation and research into all of its facets has been widely recognised, especially in the context of international integration, where languages are formed to coexist with one another. The constant growth of commercial sectors contributes greatly to this.
This is represented in part by the multilingual economic news, which acts as a conduit for societal and economic exchange across countries. Problems communicating economic news from English to Vietnamese are investigated. It also delves into translators' mentalities and the typical difficulties they face when working with bilingual news. The data was gathered through the author's own observations and analyses, as well as through surveys given to 100 advanced language students at National Economics University.
The results of this study should prove the value of bilingual news by illuminating the most pressing fundamental challenges, providing useful recommendations to aid bilingual translation programmes, and bolstering the efforts of translators engaged in the translation of economic news in both languages. il Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A LIST OF TABLE Table 3.1: Linguistic difficulties made by students in the translation of ECONOMIC NOWS .oceeecccccccccscccccccccccsssesssessecesssessssessesessssssecceeeseseseseecceeessssssssssssesssesueceens 27 11 Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A LIST OF FIGURES Figure 3.1: The confidence level of students’ ability to translate economic Figure 3.2: The frequency of students making translation errors when translating ECONOMIC T€WS.- 2G 1S HH TH TH HH HH Hệ 21 Figure 3.3: The difficulties that students face when translating economic news Figure 3.4: The lexical difficulties that students face when translating ECONOMIC NOWS Bố.5: The syntactic difficulties that students face when translating ECONOMIC NOWS SẺ.6: Students difficulties in economic news translation.7: Causes of linguistic difficulties 0. ee eeeeseeeseeesesseeeseeeseenes 29 iv Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A LIST OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTT.-- Ác + HT HH HH HH ng ng i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .ceccecceesceseeeseceseceeecseeesecececseeeaeceaeeeeseeeaeseneesees ii LIST OF TABLE 1a. 11 LIST OF FIGURES 11.
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VI Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION This chapter characterizes the research issue and rationale, the aims of the research and research questions, the scope and significance of the thesis, and the general design of the study. Introduction of research topic Research on linguistic difficulties in translating economic news from English to Vietnamese of 3rd and 4th year students majoring in Business English at NEU University (subjects are students who have studied translation theory 1 and 2) It is generally acknowledged that translation plays a crucial role in the globalisation of human knowledge. It focuses on worldwide arranging, socio-cultural awareness, professional educational exercises, implementation of innovations, and considerably more. Tian (2004) describes additional significance of translation.
He asserts that translation is gaining importance in global and intercultural activity, as it facilitates common understanding among diverse and conflicting racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural groups. In the world's fastest-growing business, which includes the travel industry, translation is even more vital. The trend of international travel is growing stronger than ever. Consequently, translation acts as an indispensable link between individuals, nations, and economies.
The function of the press in socioeconomic life and the integration process is growing in importance. In addition to promptly and effectively delivering information, the press also plays the role of information orientation, directing public opinion against insufficient information and propagating advanced instances and concepts in a timely manner. Nevertheless, Vietnam's economy is expanding daily. According to Harvard University, Vietnam is one of the economies with the most astounding growth over the past decade.
From 2015 to 2020, Vietnam's economy "rose 12 positions in terms of diversification and modernisation of production capacities in the export goods structure." Additionally according to a Harvard University research, Vietnam's economy has risen from 100th in 2000 to 51st in the released rankings. This is a significant advance. This is partially attributable to the diversification of Vietnam's export structure, according to Professor David Dapice, a senior economist at Harvard University's Vietnam and Burma Program. The South and Myanmar level of Harvard University stated this as a result.
In order to speed up the process of integration and development, the domestic populace has a growing desire for international economic information and foreign newspaper opinions in order to gain a thorough understanding of economic trends, which are subsequently applied to the 1 Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A Vietnamese economy. The translation of economic news will satisfy this requirement for everyone. Nonetheless, translation has occasionally been criticised for being poor or even erroneous the majority of the time. This appears to result in an irrational dislike of translators, yet it has its own rationale.
On the plus side, practically any translation that conveys the intended meaning is adequate. This is because there are numerous semantic and social differences between languages. Additionally, economics is a vast field that encompasses tens of thousands of concepts and terminology. Corporate businesses cannot rely on basic translations for optimal efficiency; they must have the choice to present their documents in a thorough, logical, and cost-effective manner.
Rationale of the research Language is the most essential means of human communication. Man has made great strides in decoding and encoding one another's thoughts and communications; nonetheless, it is difficult to communicate ourselves in a second language. There are numerous languages that go extinct or vanish throughout time. In addition, each language's genesis is based on a nation's culture, which makes language increasingly abundant and diverse.
As is common knowledge, English is currently considered an international language and is spoken in the majority of countries, including Vietnam. Nonetheless, English to Vietnamese translation presents challenges due to structural variations. In addition, as a result of worldwide contact and integration, more English economic news is being introduced. Obviously, there are some difficulties in translating between a foreign language and a native language, especially in translating English economic news in particular.
Consequently, the purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges translators confront when interpreting economic news. Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A 1. Objectives of the research This research aims to investigate the common linguistic difficulties and the cause in the translation practice that juniors and seniors studying Business English at National Economics University may encounter when doing translation work on economic news. Accordingly, the study aims to recommend some methods to overcome these obstacles so that students are better equipped with professional knowledge and abilities, hence increasing their employment chances, particularly in this field.
Scope of the research The research was conducted within a limit of 100 juniors and seniors studying Business English at National Economics University in the academic years 2022-2023. Research questions e According to students' perceptions, what are the language difficulties when translating English-Vietnamese economic news? e Where do these problems come from? e What can be done to master translating English- Vietnamese economic news? 1. Research method This study is carried out with a considerable concentration on quantitative method. Quantitative method is applied to measure ‘how much’ and ‘how many’ in the case study.
The quantitative method in this study was firstly used in counting the frequency of occurrences of translation difficulties in economic news made by advanced Business English students. Questionnaires composed by the writer were used in this method: 100 Business English’s students were given questionnaires consisting of multiple-choice and writing-requiring questions through Google Form. Questionnaires included 3 main parts: Part 1: Frequency of difficults in economic news translation. (multiple-choice) Part 2: The most common mistakes that respondents claim they make during translation process and causes (multiple-choice) Part 3: Surveyors translate some English economic news into Vietnamese, then this translated version is compared with the standard version.
(writing-requiring) Tables and bar charts are used to illustrate the popularity of all mistakes and causes. Design of the research The essay consists of 4 chapters as below: Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A Chapter 1: Introduction, which describes the research topic, including the rationale and purposes of the study, the research questions, and the structure of the paper. Chapter 2: Literature review, which covers concepts and definitions of relevant terminologies (translation, economic news) and importance of studied problems. This chapter provides background knowledge on the problem under study, to assist in analysis and discussion.
Chapter 3: Findings and discussion, which shows the author's discoveries about the common errors based on specific data collected from reality. The issues are thoroughly analyzed and discussed in this chapter. Chapter 4: Conclusion and Recommendation, which summarizes the main ideas presented in the article, limitations and offers suggestions and solutions to overcome the common errors for different individuals and organizations. Luong Phuong Anh — 11190218 — Business English 61A CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.