Translation Student's Opinions, Comments, and Feedback on TQA Approaches of Translator Trainers

In this descriptive study by conducting four focus group interviews including undergraduate and graduate students of English translation in Iranian universities, the students’ opinions, comments and feedback on assessment approaches of their teachers were investigated. The obtained results in terms of the students’ opinions, comments, and feedback on assessment approaches were then compared and contrasted with distinguished models and approaches to translation assessment. Using the procedure of grounded theory, a method of qualitative data analysis, the focus group interviews data was coded and analyzed. The results of data analysis indicated that students believe that most of the assessment approaches advocated and applied by Iranian translator educators mostly complies with the criteria of translation quality assessment which are introduced by theorists of translation quality assessment. These approaches conform to a great extent to the approaches and models of translation quality assessment presented by translation assessment theorists.