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 re-gression analysis showed that critical thinking was a significant predictor of students’ translation scores.
Machine summary:
"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 re- gression analysis showed that critical thinking was a significant predictor of students’ translation scores.
Instrumentations To respond to the research question of this study, two instruments were used: a test of English to Persiantranslation to assess their translation abil- ity and the Waddington (2001) rubric to score the translation tests, a CT questionnaire to evaluate student’s CT ability.
In order to find answer to the second research ques- tion, a linear regression analysis was conducted to determine any predictability power between CT and translation quality.
Table 3 illustrates the results of this analysis: Table 3 Descriptive Statistics of the Translation Scores (به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود) The above scores are the mean values given by the two raters.
The results confirmed the first hy- pothesis which stated that there is a relation be- tween CT and students’ translation quality Second Hypothesis In order to test the second hypothesis, a linear regression was used as shown in Table 6.
Conclusions and Discussions The relation between critical thinking skills and translation quality appears to be a dis- cussed subject in the field of translation stud- ies; yet not many empirical researches have addressed the topic in detail.
This research studied the relation be- tween the critical thinking and translation qual- ity in subjects of60 students."