The University of Tehran Journal of Foreign Language Research 2588-4123 2 2 2012 09 22 A Descriptive Study of the English Translation Process of Iranian Novice Translators A Descriptive Study of the English Translation Process of Iranian Novice Translators 43 64 50917 10.22059/jflr.2012.50917 FA Sara Sari Masood Khoshsaligheh 0000-0002-6508-1986 Mohammad Reza Hashemi Journal Article 2013 10 02 The translator’s multilateral role as a<br />user and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the target<br />text in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawn<br />researchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior including<br />the translation process of  novice<br />translators This study, outlined in the framework of Descriptive Translation<br />Studies (DTS), explains the processes undertaken by Iranian novice translators<br />while translating an expository text from English to Persian. Eight novice<br />translators took part in the study and three methods of Think Aloud Protocol<br />Technique, Observation and Retrospective Interview were used to gather the<br />data. All the actions of the translators were encoded and categorized according<br />to the steps introduced in Grounded Theory Method Data Analysis and were<br />examined on Rhetoric, Conceptual and linguistic levels and divided into four<br />stages of Planning, Comprehending, Transferring and Monitoring. This study<br />specifies that all novice translators went through all the stages and levels in<br />the process of translating an expository text from English to Persian. However<br />their main focus was on the linguistic level. The translator’s multilateral role as a<br />user and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the target<br />text in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawn<br />researchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior including<br />the translation process of  novice<br />translators This study, outlined in the framework of Descriptive Translation<br />Studies (DTS), explains the processes undertaken by Iranian novice translators<br />while translating an expository text from English to Persian. Eight novice<br />translators took part in the study and three methods of Think Aloud Protocol<br />Technique, Observation and Retrospective Interview were used to gather the<br />data. All the actions of the translators were encoded and categorized according<br />to the steps introduced in Grounded Theory Method Data Analysis and were<br />examined on Rhetoric, Conceptual and linguistic levels and divided into four<br />stages of Planning, Comprehending, Transferring and Monitoring. This study<br />specifies that all novice translators went through all the stages and levels in<br />the process of translating an expository text from English to Persian. However<br />their main focus was on the linguistic level. https://jflr.ut.ac.ir/article_50917_149a16609e6a50a28c664e11c64b97aa.pdf