Background: Patients’ trust in their physicians can affect therapeutic outcomes. Measurement of patient’s trust levels is a helpful approach for policymakers in healthcare systems. Aim: The present study was targeted toward the translation and psychometric assessment of patients’ trust in midwifery care questionnaire. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 female patients refer...

Translation ability is known as one of the most difficult language abilities to measure. A typical method of measuring translation ability involves asking translators to translate sentences and to request professional evaluators to grade the translations. It imposes a heavy burden on both translators and evaluators. In this paper, we propose a practical method for assessing translation ability....

Machine Translation (MT) has made a comeback during the 1990s. Though systems, as to their Iinguistic performance, are much what they were 10 years earlier, there have been significant changes on the technical level. Systems that were once costly and running on mainframes and expensive workstations only are now licensed for rather modest sums to run on personal computers. The comeback of MT has...

The objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of L2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and (b) to study the likely difference between students' self-assessed level of writing and those reported by raters. The study was conducted with 138 Iranian students at BA and MA levels in Alborz Institute of Higher Educatio...

From a Translation Studies perspective, translation assessment is gradually becoming more popular thanks to increasing academic interest in translator education. In fact, we believe that evaluation should be deeply explored order systematise and consolidate how it carried out, especially particular Brazilian context. As still witness an unwelcome focus on summative of students with little room ...

In this paper we share our experience from implementing machine translation in localization into relatively small languages of the three Baltic countries – Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian. We describe our approach in improving terminology translation and consistency by preprocessing of the source text and performing term integration. We present results of a formal evaluation of MT impact on t...