Translation Difficulty: How to Measure and What to Measure

What is it about?

The present research opens up the theoretical light on measuringtranslation difficulty through various perspectives. However, accurate evaluationof translation difficulty by means of the level of the text, translator’s characteristics, and the quality of translation are significant for translation pedagogy andaccreditation. To measure translation difficulty, one has to scrutinize it into fourways as (1) the identification of resources of translation difficulty, (2) the measurement of text readability, (3) the measurement of translation difficulty bymeans of translation evaluation products such as holistic, analytic, calibrateddichotomous items (CDI), and the preselected items evaluation (PIE) methods,and (4) the measurement of mental workload. This article will expand on thementioned factors in detail in order to shed light upon translation difficulty onhow and what to measure.

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Why is it important?

The present research opens up the theoretical light on measuringtranslation difficulty through various perspectives. However, accurate evaluationof translation difficulty by means of the level of the text, translator’s characteristics, and the quality of translation are significant for translation pedagogy andaccreditation. To measure translation difficulty, one has to scrutinize it into fourways as (1) the identification of resources of translation difficulty, (2) the measurement of text readability, (3) the measurement of translation difficulty bymeans of translation evaluation products such as holistic, analytic, calibrateddichotomous items (CDI), and the preselected items evaluation (PIE) methods,and (4) the measurement of mental workload. This article will expand on thementioned factors in detail in order to shed light upon translation difficulty onhow and what to measure.