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saxelmwifo enis swavlebis sakiTxebi:
problemebi da gamowvevebi
Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
1. He provided us with actual (---------------------) facts.
2. He used to retell us about this anecdote (---------------) in my childhood.
3. She felt a sudden pain, it seemed that it was angina(----------------------)
4. The only valuable thing left in the house ,was his china cabinet(----------------)
5. Usually compositor (-----------------------) arranges type for printing.
6. He holds several concurrent (-------------------) exhibitions.
7. He held curious(------------------------) inquiry
8. His novels(----------------) will survive over decades(----------------------)
9. Silk fabric (-----------------------) is my favorite one.
10. He is the most genial (--------------------) boy I have ever met.
11. He is an intelligent (-----------------) boy.
12. It was obvious, that the picture he presented, was an accurate replica(------------------)
13. He could not manage to take falcon out of eagles talon(-------------------)
14. Nothing makes person so virtuous (------------------) as charity. /
15. She offered me tea with biscuits (-----------------------) and marmalade (---------------)
Test results revealed the following:
� none of the students(0%) provided the right Georgian equivalent for the words actual; “angina”;
“cabinet”; “concurrent”; “replica”; “talon” as due to L1 interference all students provided Georgian
meaning of the words specifically: ანგინა[angina] - “tonsillitis” for “angina”; კაბინეტი [kabineti] -
“study /office” for “cabinet”; კონკურენტი [konkurenti] that is “competitor” for “concurrent”;
რეპლიკა [replica] “remark” for “replica”; ტალონი[taloni]“coupon” for “talon”.
� Just 5% of students provided the right translations for the words: “compositor”; “genial”; “virtuous”;
“ambitious”; and “marmalade” as in majority of the cases these words were translated as
კომპოზიტორი [kompozitori]– composer for „compositor“; გენიალური [genialuri]-genius for genial;
ვირტუოზული [virtuozuli]-masterly for virtuous; მარმელადი [marmeladi]-fruit jelly for marmalade;
� 10% of students provided right translation for the word ”anecdote” as in 90% of cases it was translated
as ანეკდოტი [anekdoti] – joke;
� 14% of students provided the right translation for the word “curious” as 85% translated it as
[kuriozi] კურიოზი-amusing incident;
� 20% of students provide right Georgian equivalent for words ”decade” and “novel” as 80 % of students
translated them as დეკადა [dekada] –10 days period and ნოველა [novela]- short story;
� 27% of students provided right translation for the word “fabric” still 73% of students translated it
as a ფაბრიკა [fabrika] - factory;
� 36% of students appropriately translated the word “intelligent” but 64% provided wrong translation
for the word and translated it as ინტელიგენტი [inteligenti]-intellectual;
� In conclusion we can state that in 340 sentences (as stated above 20 students were requested to
translate 15 sentences containing 17 Georgian-English FFs ) there were 32 cases (9%) of appropriate
translation.(fig.2)
Figure 2.
right
answers
9%
wrong
answers
91%
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