Developing a Holistic Model of Translation Quality Assessment

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.267How to use a DOI?

Keywords

holistic method; translation quality; TQA; translation from English into bahasa Indonesia

Abstract

Quality is the ultimate goal of any translation practices. However, a quality translation is always debatable for different methods of assessment, widely known as translation quality assessment (TQA). The issue of relativity and subjectivity is apparent in many TQA models. This study aims at developing a holistic TQA applicable for assessing translation from English to Bahasa Indonesia. This study used a research and development method. The data were both primary and secondary data. The primary data were the results of the interview and forum group discussion (FGD), and the secondary data were the research report. The data were analyzed using an interactive model. The findings of this research indicate that: (i) TQA should be based on a holistic method, (ii) a holistic-based TQA model should provide clearly distinguishing quality criteria, and (iii) the TQA model developed in this study assesses both translation and linguistic skills. This study concludes that a good TQA should cover the whole criteria of quality translation from both the translation and the linguistic aspects.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rudy Sofyan
AU  - Bahagia Tarigan
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Developing a Holistic Model of Translation Quality Assessment
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 266
EP  - 271
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.267
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.267
ID  - Sofyan2019/06
ER  -