Translator Trainees’ Performance on Arabic–English Promotional Materials

Abstract Due to linguistic and cultural variations between the source language (SL) target (TL), tourism industry may struggle communicate effectively with tourists from various backgrounds. The translation could contribute significantly growth of by removing barriers, facing those different Given this issue, study targets 27 postgraduates enrolled in training programs at Saudi universities an average age M = 27.471 (SD 4.8319) examine their performance on inverse (Arabic English). authors use a task, tourism-based knowledge questionnaire, scale difficulty gather data. Findings reveal shortcomings postgraduates’ promotional material adherence text style. participants’ responses questionnaire show lack know-what know-how translation. Training design courses should be based interdisciplinary nature field order adequately prepare translator trainees for industry.