Translation is a new subject for the students of English major at Dong Thap
University. There are two forms of translation: written translation and spoken
translation. At Dongthap University, written translation is taught for the students of BA
English Class from the beginning of the second year. Because translation is still new
and strange for their first time learning, most of the English major students still have
difficulties in learning this kind of subject, especially the students of the second year
from BA English class (2011-2015 curriculums). This study was conducted to find out
the students‟ difficulties as well as their expectations when they begin to learn written
translation in order to make suggestions that can partly help them overcome these
obstacles in studying this course. Besides that, the study also aims at making some
suggestions as a useful reference helping adjust learning and teaching method to get a
better result in learning and teaching process. The research methods used in this study
are the questionnaire- a list of questions to find out the difficulties that students usually
face and the interview questions which used to meeting students‟ expectations in
learning the subject.
