The Relation between Critical Thinking and Translation Quality

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Ahmad Mohseni ¹ , Adnan Satariyan ²

1 - Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - University Of Tasmania, Australia

Received: 2017-06-27 Accepted : 2017-06-27 Published : 2011-03-01

Keywords: translation, critical thinking, Critical thinker, Quality of translation,

Abstract :

This study determined whether there was any significant relation between EFL student’s critical thinking and their translation quality. To this end, 60 male and female translation students took part in the study. The participants were chosen from among senior BA students and junior MA students. The subjects were given a translation production test and a critical thinking questionnaire (Honey, 2005) which were to be completed in 55 minutes. Then two raters evaluated the production test. The results of an analysis of correlation between the two variables indicated that there was a significant relation between critical thinking and translation quality. Furthermore, a regression analysis showed that critical thinking was a significant predictor of students’ translation scores.