Nineteen eighty-six has been a conclusive year for machine translation (MT). The world’s press has reported more fully than ever on the various operational systems now in use as well as on research and development projects for the future, while John Hutchins has finally succeeded in restoring the reputation of MT as a respectable field of science with the appearance of his scholarly work Machin...

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...

this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...