The Influence of Direct Malay-To-French Translation on Novice Interpreters: A Roleplay Intervention Study Among Malay Students in Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Branch

The purpose of this study is to explore whether the transmission of the original language (Malay) to the interpreter's second language (French) affects the grammatical correctness of novice interpreters in oral interpreting dialogues when interpreting from Malay dialogue between Universiti Teknologi MARA (UTM) Terengganu Branch Malay students in their roleplay task. Structured role play tasks were used with a group of intermediate level learners of French to minimise source a interference and target language reformulation strategies. The pre and post intervention interpreting performances showed that direct Malay-to-French translation produced systematic errors in French such as errors of article omission, auxiliary errors and errors of syntactic transfer. After roleplay intervention, learners demonstrated significant improvement in sentence restructuring, usage of tenses, and functional expression use, indicating from the surface level of translation to the meaning level of re-expression. The results emphasize the significance of contrastive linguistic teaching and communication training in the training of interpreters. Implications for pedagogy and interpreting theory are discussed.

Malay-to-French Translation, Novice Interpreters, Roleplay Intervention, Oral Interpreting, Grammatical Errors

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