Exploring the Relationship between Students’ Perfectionism and Their Use of Translation Strategies
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https://doi.org/10.37134/ajelp.vol12.1.3.2024Keywords:
Perfectionism, Translation Strategies, Translation Students, Translation TrainingAbstract
Focusing on translators' personal characteristics and their individual differences has gained more momentum in the quest for exploring factors influencing the translation process. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between translator trainees' perfectionism and their preference for the use of different translation strategies. For so doing, 100 translation students were recruited and asked to fill Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt et al.1991) and to choose one of the suggested translations for two sets of texts designed based on the translation strategies proposed by Vinay and Darblenet (1995) and Venuti (1995). The data were analyzed using SPSS (22) and Smart PLS (3.0) software packages. The findings showed that perfectionism influenced the translation trainees' preference in using some translation strategies like literal translation, domestication, and foreignization. The findings were discussed and the pedagogical implications were made.
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