Investigating Importance of Extensive Teaching of English Modals‟ Functions in Context in Translation into Arabic

This paper aims to investigate the importance of extensive teaching of modal auxiliary verb functions in context in translation into Arabic which it concerns teaching students of translation modals’ functions in context extensively in separate courses to grasp the modals’ functions in translating them into Arabic as they convey multiple meanings in context and they don’t have exact or lexical meanings in Arabic which need be to determined in the final process and production of translation as their various and multiple functional meanings in context have been left inadvertently and they have been taken for granted when translated into specific Arabic equivalences which are mostly wrong, so full knowledge of them considered to be a major translator’s skill which should not be left inadvertent to process and produce the translation accurately to match the genuine text and to avoid great loss of meaning in the translation process and the final product. Therefore, in this respect, it is recommended that lecturers of translation should teach the modals versatile and multiple meanings in context that can’t be grasped easily unless they have been taught extensively in terms of translating them into Arabic. The descriptive analytical method was adopted for conducting the study. A diagnostic pre-test, a modals’ functions course were taught and post-test were given to (30) master translation students at Graduate College, Centre for Languages and Translation at University of Bahri in Khartoum. Sudan. and a questionnaire was given to (15) translation lectures as tools for data collection. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) programme was used for data analysis. The findings proved the questions of study and the study recommends that teaching English modals’ functions should be taught extensively to translation students to expand their knowledge of the modals’ functions in context so as to find out the correct intended meaning of the modals’ functions in their contexts.