AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN MASTER’S PROGRAM OF TRANSLATION STUDIES AT IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES: SHORTCOMINGS AND NECESSITIES IN REGARD TO STUDENTS' VIEWS AND PERFORMANCE

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REZVANI REZA; VAKILINEJAD MINA

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Journal: Journal of Language and Translation Studies Year:2012 | Volume:45 | Issue:3 Page(s): 45-63

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN MASTER’S PROGRAM OF TRANSLATION STUDIES AT IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES: SHORTCOMINGS AND NECESSITIES IN REGARD TO STUDENTS' VIEWS AND PERFORMANCE

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REZVANI REZA | VAKILINEJAD MINA | Issue Writer Certificate

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CULTURAL ELEMENTSQ2

TRANSLATION STUDIESQ2

EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUMQ2

TRANSLATION QUALITYQ2

STUDENTSQ2

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According to the official master’s curriculum of TRANSLATION STUDIES, one of the main goals of the program is to educate translators to fulfill the growing need of exchanging information with other countries. To this end, knowledge of CULTURAL ELEMENTS is one of the basic essentials. Besides linguistic features of the source and target languages, translators are supposed to be familiar with cultural features of both languages and how to render CULTURAL ELEMENTS. This paper seeks to examine whether the official curriculum of TRANSLATION STUDIES at MA level adequately concerns the role of culture in translation and translating. In addition, STUDENTS’ viewpoints about the curriculum and their performance in translating CULTURAL ELEMENTS and idioms are explored. A content analysis of the official curriculum standards indicated that only two elective courses of "CULTURAL ELEMENTS in two languages" and "culture and sociology in translation" are offered in order to acquaint STUDENTS with CULTURAL ELEMENTS. However, only two from among ten universities enquired offered one of the courses as an elective course. A total of 60 graduate STUDENTS of TRANSLATION STUDIES took part in this study. They were divided into experimental and control groups including the STUDENTS who took either of the courses and those who did not, respectively. They were administered a researcher-made qualitative questionnaire tapping into their views about cultural foci in their translation courses. The results of this phase of study revealed that CULTURAL ELEMENTS and their translation were not adequately addressed in the curriculum. The STUDENTS, then, in the second phase of the study, took a translation test in an attempt to assess and compare their ability of translating CULTURAL ELEMENTS. A use was made of t-test to compare the performance of the two groups. The results indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group significantly in translating CULTURAL ELEMENTS. This suggested that sufficient attention to culture, CULTURAL ELEMENTS, and how to translate them significantly affects TRANSLATION QUALITY. In conclusion, some recommendations are made to improve the quality of cultural translation.

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REZVANI, REZA, & VAKILINEJAD, MINA. (2012). AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN MASTER’S PROGRAM OF TRANSLATION STUDIES AT IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES: SHORTCOMINGS AND NECESSITIES IN REGARD TO STUDENTS' VIEWS AND PERFORMANCE. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES, 45(3), 45-63. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/187607/en

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REZVANI REZA, VAKILINEJAD MINA. AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN MASTER’S PROGRAM OF TRANSLATION STUDIES AT IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES: SHORTCOMINGS AND NECESSITIES IN REGARD TO STUDENTS' VIEWS AND PERFORMANCE. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES[Internet]. 2012;45(3):45-63. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/187607/en

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REZA REZVANI, and MINA VAKILINEJAD, “AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN MASTER’S PROGRAM OF TRANSLATION STUDIES AT IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES: SHORTCOMINGS AND NECESSITIES IN REGARD TO STUDENTS' VIEWS AND PERFORMANCE,” JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 45–63, 2012, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/187607/en

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