ACADEMIC TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE : COMMON LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL ERRORS IN THE THAI ACADEMIC DOCUMENTS TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH

Abstract

                 Translation is a form of communication between two different languages which has served as a mechanism for cross-cultural communication for a long time in Thailand. Nowadays, the translation of academic documents from Thai to English plays an important role in disseminating knowledge arising in Thailand and transferring them to other countries that leads to knowledge transferring and exchanging, resulting in mutual learning and development in various fields. However, cultural differences in communication as well as the level of lexical and structural meaning of the language often cause translation problems that are rooted by a lack of proper understanding of words or sentence structures meaning including thinking process in Thai language before transferring into English that the translator still adheres to the Thai language structure, which makes English communication differ from reality. Therefore, understandingthe true meaning and way of using English words and sentence structure correctly will be useful for translating academic documents from Thai to English to make the translations be accurate, elegant, natural and meet the objectives that the author wants to convey.