Assessment of Student Translators' Texts from Nepali into English: Language Quality and Degree of Task Completion
Translation Today · 2020
This study attempts to assess the quality of English translations by English-major M.Ed.students specializing in Translation Studies.The study adopted the combination of error analysis and holistic method to assess the quality of target texts (TTs) elicited through the production task carried out by 30 purposively selected students.Findings show that most of TTs were undermined by grammatical errors and syntactic inaccuracies revealing student translators' substandard English competence.The study thus sees the urgency of incorporating English teaching into the translation course to strengthen student translators' production skill in English.