BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) is a valid quality of life tool often employed to determine the impact of medical intervention and the outcome of health care services. However, the SF-36 is culturally sensitive which necessitates its adaptation and translation into different languages. This study was conducted to cross-culturally adapt the SF-36 into Yoruba languag...

the present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. to achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. the reliability of the...

evaluation of functional disability using proper instruments, like health assessment questionnaire (haq) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra), is necessary not only for quality of life assessment, but also as a useful marker for disease activity. haq has been translated into many languages. to validate the persian version of stanford haq. persian version of the haq (pe-haq) with culturall...

the present exploratory study aimed to construct and apply a localized questionnaireto investigate the cultural orientations of iranian english translation students. it alsoexamined the relationship between cultural orientations of iranian englishtranslation students, their gender, and translation quality. this mixed-methods study,in the first phase, used focus group interviews to form a pool o...

Abstract Nowadays, in the globalised context which we find ourselves, language barriers can still be an obstacle to accessing information. On occasions, it is impossible satisfy demand for translation by relying only human translators, therefore, tools such as Machine Translation (MT) are gaining popularity due their potential overcome this problem. Consequently, research field constantly growi...