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CONCLUSION
The numbèr and the quality of the errors made
in ngps
are evidence that these are actually a source of serious
difficulty for the students with whom we have worked. The
statistical
tests have shown that the incidence of wbt and i rg
errors in the face of a 1.1 the other types of errors, which have
also been produced in the translation of English ngps, is
relevant.
These two types of errors as we have described them in chapter 5,
are the ones which characterize those students' tendency to
transfer the usual sequence of the structural elements in a
Portuguese ngp to some English ngps found in the texts translated.
The importance of this transference-* lies in the fact that the
equivalent Portuguese
ngps as rendered by those EL I students
are in complete interference with the message
conveyed in the
texts studied by both groups of students. It has become evident
that students have not. achieved any other kind of translation 2
which has not interfered with comprehension.
Except for the translation of A DUSTY ROOM (T9P) into
'na poeira da sala', which has also shown the influence
of the
sequence of English structural elements, plus the insertion of
a rankshifted group - 'de uma sala' - no other examples
of
transposition without interference with comprehension have
been
produced. 3 English ngps have posed difficulties to our EL I
students in both specific and non-specific types of texts. Errors
such as the ones below have shown that the difficulty has
been
posed independent of the relation between the content of the