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which we intended to detect in this research; only number 7
interested us because it clearly showed the same sequence of
the English exponents, NATURAL= 'natureza' - UN ITS= 'uniões',
besides the student's attempt to insert a rankshifted
prepositional group - 'de uniões' - where it was completely
unnecessary. Numbers 4 and 5 were also ignored in this
research
since they did not reflect the interference of the sequence of
the English exponents with the rendered translation into
Portuguese.
We have listed several types of errors made in ngps
so that the problems involved in the translation of English ngps
might be considered as a fact; however, in this research, only
those errors which show the interference of the sequence of
English ngp exponents and that same interference plus an
inadequate insertion of a rankshifted group, (irg) as in number 7
above, have served our
purposes.
5.2, Students and texts applied
Besides intending to find out whether the incidence
of wbt and i rg errors in ngps was relevant in face of other
types of errors, and whether the length of ngps had any relation to
the number of those errors, we also needed to verify whether
the
problems posed by ngps were only restricted to certain types of
texts considered as non-specific to students' major disciplines,
or whether the fact of dealing with
texts related to their own
academic field would minimize those problems. Thus, we chose
two groups of newly-admitted undergraduates of different academic
areas: one of Nursing students and the other of Physics students. 1