Research into linguistic interference

6.1.  Interference Identification Task 
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6.2.  Questionnaires 
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7.  TRIANGULATION 
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8.  CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 
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9.  RÉSUMÉ 
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9.1.  English 
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9.2.  Czech 
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1.  INTRODUCTION 
The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of 
the occurrence of interference in students‟ translations. The research will 
consist of three major parts: first, the analysis of interference in students‟ 
translations, second, interference identification task for students and teachers of 
translation, and finally, the questionnaires asking students about their view of 
interference. Nevertheless, the analysis of interference occurring in students‟ 
translations forms the most important part of the research. The results will be 
summarized at the end of each part and triangulated in the conclusion.   
As far as the outline of this thesis is concerned, chapter 2 will deal with 
theoretical views of this phenomenon. Interference and its characteristics will be 
presented, definitions by several scholars will be mentioned and different 
approaches towards interference will be discussed. Chapter 3 will be devoted to 
classifications and research by four scholars dealing with interference, and 
starting with chapter 4, which will focus on the actual analysis, the research will 
be purely practical. The corpus and the method of research will be presented 
and the classification as we have determined it for the purpose of this thesis will 
be outlined. The following chapter 5 will focus on the results from the analysis of 
students‟ translations. The supplementary data, i.e. the interference 
identification task and questionnaires, will be included in chapter 6. The most 
important data obtained will be summarized and triangulated in chapter 7 and 
they will hopefully reveal the main tendencies, some interesting observations 
and evidence which will be useful for further investigations. And finally, chapter 
8 will conclude this thesis and suggestions for further research will be discussed 
there.  

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The Appendix at the end of this thesis and the enclosed CD contain all the 
relevant materials and tables which were used for the research. Concretely, 
complete table with results from the analyses of students‟ translations and 
answers from questionnaires can be found in the Appendix. All the other 
materials – i.e. source texts and analyses of individual texts, questionnaire, 
translation which served as a text for the interference identification task and 
results from it – will be included on the CD. 

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