Significance of Mastering Translation of English Modals‟ Functions in Context into Arabic to Translation Students

Modals’ functions in context have great significance either in general or to the translation students not to be left inadvertent in terms of mastering modal auxiliary verb functions’ knowledge as a part of linguistic competence regarding perfect translation from English into Arabic as a major translator’s skill to process and produce translation that meet the writer perspective in the genuine text. Full knowledge of modal auxiliary verb functions concerning the functional meaning in context as an element of linguistic competence is a must to the translator where it is a rich, versatile and tricky area semantically and grammatically and since translation is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the knowledge of relations between languages and the application of this knowledge in communication, modal auxiliary verb functions should be applicable fully and appropriately in applying and translating them to arabic. This study aimed at discovering how much knowledge do thirty (30) master degree translation students have after sitting to a pre - test and after attending modals’ functions course and sitting to a post – test that a similar to the ore - test. The thirty (30) master degree students who exposed to the tests at the Graduate College – Center of Languages and Translation. University of Bahri. The experimental method was adopted for conducting the study. The pre – test and post - test were chosen as tools for data collection. The SPSS programme (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was used for data analysis. The statistical analysis for the results of the pre – test and the post - test showed that great advantage in the whole (30) students percentage of their success in answering correctly in the post – test increased from (56.7%) in the pre – test scores to (88.2%) with percentage of (31.5%) of increase in improvement. The study come up with the following findings : translation students have seriously - limited knowledge in terms of modals’ functions and grasping modal verbs and their functions and uses in context help improve translation skill to translation students. Thus, based on the findings, the study recommended that translators should expand their knowledge of the modals’ functions in context so as to find out the correct intended meaning of the modals’ functions.