Research into linguistic interference

8.  CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 
This thesis has focused on interference in students‟ translations. The 
concept of interference has been presented in the theoretical part, and theories 
and research by several scholars have been discussed. The major part of the 
research includes the analyses of students‟ translations. For this purpose, a 
classification containing 6 types of interferences has been established and 
individual examples have been classified according to it. The other part of the 
research consists of supplementary data obtained from two tasks assigned to 
students of translation. First, they were given an interference identification task, 
i.e. they were asked to mark interference in one of the students‟ translations 
from the corpus. And second, they were given questionnaires which inquired 
about their perception of this phenomenon. Results from these parts have been 
summarized in the individual chapters and the most important issues have been 
triangulated in chapter 7.  
It would certainly be interesting to examine this issue in more detail because 
many questions remain unanswered. For example, it would be interesting to 
research interference and its development throughout the studies of concrete 
students; choose several people at the beginning of their studies, collect their 
translations in the course of gaining experience and examine whether they are 
able to withstand interference at the end of their studies. Moreover, one half of 
the students could be told to detect passages where potential interference could 
occur every time before they start to translate (the other half of the students 
could have freedom in this respect). The results would reveal whether this 
method really helps. Nevertheless, a rather long time-span would be needed for 
this research. 

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This thesis has provided a fundamental insight into interference occurring in 
students‟ translations and the results may serve as a basis for further research. 
Moreover, the method used for the analysis and the classification introduced 
can be useful for translation training and for assessment of students.  
We will conclude this thesis with Newmark‟s quotation which perfectly 
reflects the nature of this phenomenon: “In fact, interference is the spectre of 
most professional translators, the fear that haunts the translation students; the 
ever present-trap” (Newmark 1991: 81). 

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