Students' Problems of Rendering Metadiscourse in Consecutive Interpreting of English Political Discourse into Arabic.

This study aims to investigate rendering of metadiscourse resources in consecutive interpreting from English into Arabic. Metadiscourse has been extensively studied in written genres—academic writing, advertisements, textbooks, and popular science articles—there is a significant gap in the exploration of how metadiscourse is interpreted, conveyed, or perhaps lost during consecutive interpreting of political texts . This research aims to close this gap by investigating the extent to which student interpreters recognize and reproduce metadiscourse elements in consecutive interpreting from English into Arabic. Political text is chosen because it is rich in rhetorical devices and persuasive strategies, making them fertile ground for metadiscourse analysis .It is hypothesized that metadiscourse is context-bound and multifunctional. The data draw on a speech delivered by Boris Johnson (2021) interpreted by ten MA candidates at the Department of Translation , University of Mosul. Hyland's (2005) model and Nida's (1964)model are adopted in the analysis and interpreting metadiscourse resources employed in the text . The study revealed that the students could not capture the rhetorical function of metadiscourse resources that caused inadequate and undesirable output.