The impact of task complexity and translating self-efficacy belief on students' translation performance: Evidence from process and product data.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies that explored the impact of task-related variables on translation performance focused on task complexity but reported inconsistent findings. This study shows that, to understand the effect of task complexity on translation process and its end product, performance in translation tasks of various complexity levels needs to be compared in a specific setting, in which more factors are considered besides task complexity-especially students' translating self-efficacy belief (TSEB). Data obtained from screen recording, subjective rating, semi-structured interview, and quality evaluation were triangulated to measure how task complexity influenced the translation performance of Chinese students with high and low TSEB. We found that the complex task led to significantly longer task

SUBMITTER: Zhou X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671207 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature