چکیده (انگلیسی):

Contrastiveanalysis studies occupy a vital role in the course of translation studies. Similarities and differences between
systems of languages facilitate the process of learning a foreign/second language along with translating from one
language into another. Thus, this study seeks to shed light on strategies employed byEFL learners in translating English
passive voice construction into Arabic. More specifically, it investigated these strategies against the syntactic strategies
that are proposed by Andrew Chesterman in his book Memes of Translation. Participants from six Jordanian
universities (Public and Private) who werestudying general translation courses wereadministered toa translation test of
five English sentences that contain both agentive and agentless passive constructions in which participants were asked
to translate them into Arabic. The results reveal that participants use the following strategies when translating agentive
passive sentences: maintaining passive, topicalization, periphrastic structure and activization. However, when
translating agentless passive sentences, participants use the following strategies: maintaining passive, periphrastic
structure, lexicalization and activization. These strategies correspond to Chesterman’s syntactic strategies: literal
translationstrategy, transposition, clause structure change and sentence structurechange.