Exploring self-confidence and educational motivation and their relation to oral translation quality of Iraqi EFL students : a case study of Najaf and Karbala
Joint Authors
Source
al-Qadissiyah Journal for Humanities Sciences
Issue
Vol. 22, Issue 2 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.83-92, 10 p.
Publisher
University of al-Qadisiyah College of Arts
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
Abstract EN
The aim of this study was to investigate the self-confidence and educational motivation of the under-graduate male English department students and the effect of these attributes on their oral translation quality.
One hundred BA undergraduate male students from two different universities in Iraq, University of Kufa in Najaf and University of Karbala were selected for this research.
They received Namni's self-confidence questionnaire (2007), (with reliability 0.88 and 0.81 validity) Harter's motivational scale (1981) (with reliability 0.79 and validity 0.88) and oral translation test of about 60 words driven from the English news from the Voice of America (VOA).
They scored by oral evaluation rubric method proposed by Clifford (Psychometric validation and interpreter certification).
The 100 students underwent the self-confidence and the motivational questionnaires after that they stood up in front of five experienced raters and the VOA special English report was selected and played to the students in order to test their oral translation ability and quality.
After the statistical analysis was taken, it is found that; a) there were significant positive correlation between the self-confidence and oral translation quality of male English translation students, b) there were significant positive correlation between the motivation and the quality of oral translation, c) self-confidence has more influence and was more closely correlated with oral translation quality.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ghabanchi, Z.& al-Hilal, A. I.. 2019. Exploring self-confidence and educational motivation and their relation to oral translation quality of Iraqi EFL students : a case study of Najaf and Karbala. al-Qadissiyah Journal for Humanities Sciences،Vol. 22, no. 2, pp.83-92.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-978160
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ghabanchi, Z.& al-Hilal, A. I.. Exploring self-confidence and educational motivation and their relation to oral translation quality of Iraqi EFL students : a case study of Najaf and Karbala. al-Qadissiyah Journal for Humanities Sciences Vol. 22, no. 2 (2019), pp.83-92.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-978160
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ghabanchi, Z.& al-Hilal, A. I.. Exploring self-confidence and educational motivation and their relation to oral translation quality of Iraqi EFL students : a case study of Najaf and Karbala. al-Qadissiyah Journal for Humanities Sciences. 2019. Vol. 22, no. 2, pp.83-92.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-978160
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 91
Record ID
BIM-978160