Table 2 The raw numbers and percentages of the students’ lexical, syntactic and punctuation errors on the pre- and post-tests.
From: Teaching Arabic-English legal translation using model texts: a mixed-method study
Error type | Test | Short legal documents | Contracts | Total number of errors | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lexical errors | Pre-test | 267 | 224 | 491 | 46.58% |
Post-test | 101 | 66 | 167 | 34.36% | |
Syntactic errors | Pre-test | 226 | 149 | 375 | 35.57% |
Post-test | 126 | 98 | 224 | 46.09% | |
Punctuation errors | Pre-test | 113 | 75 | 188 | 17.83% |
Post-test | 64 | 31 | 95 | 19.54% | |
Total errors | Pre-test | 606 | 448 | 1054 | 100% |
Post-test | 291 | 195 | 486 | 100% |
