การปรับปรุงข้อผิดพลาดทางการแปลจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาอังกฤษของนักศึกษาหลักสูตรภาษาอังกฤษ ชั้นปีที่ 3 คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ โดยใช้แบบฝึกหัดการหาข้อผิดพลาดทางไวยกรณ์ (Error IdentificationThe Improvement of Translation Mistakes of Maejo University’s English Major Students by Implementing Error Identification Exercises)

Abstract

      This study was conducted to find the student’s grammatical mistakes in translation exercises and to study the appropriate teaching by using the error identification exercises as a tool to develop translation skill of target students. The participants of this study are 69 English major students, Maejo University who registered for LE314 Translation 2 in academic year 2016.
      The research methodology was done by using a translation pre-test and post-test including the error identification exercises as the research tools in order to locate grammatical mistakes during translation tasks. For the error identification, it was used as a treatment for correcting those mistakes.
      According to the study, after the participants did a translation pre-test, it could be clearly seen that subject-verb agreement was a major mistake which was 44.36 percent. Then, four treatments were introduced by giving the error identification exercises to the participants each week and the teacher (researcher) gave an answer and explained the correct grammar rules at the end of the class. Afterwards, the participants were asked to do the translation post-test with an aim to compare the before-after mistakes. The result showed that the proportion of subject-verb agreement mistakes became lower which was only 31.70 percent followed by other mistakes such as tenses, missing subject and wrong part of speech. From this point, it can be concluded that the error identification exercise takes a role in developing correct understanding of grammar usage which also influences the correct translating skill from Thai to English.