a descriptive study of the english translation process of iranian novice translators

the translator’s multilateral role as auser and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the targettext in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawnresearchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior includingthe translation process of  novicetranslators this study, outlined in the framework of descriptive translationstudies (dts), explains the processes undertaken by iranian novice translatorswhile translating an expository text from english to persian. eight novicetranslators took part in the study and three methods of think aloud protocoltechnique, observation and retrospective interview were used to gather thedata. all the actions of the translators were encoded and categorized accordingto the steps introduced in grounded theory method data analysis and wereexamined on rhetoric, conceptual and linguistic levels and divided into fourstages of planning, comprehending, transferring and monitoring. this studyspecifies that all novice translators went through all the stages and levels inthe process of translating an expository text from english to persian. howevertheir main focus was on the linguistic level.