Bir Çeviri Kalitesi Değerlendirme Modeli Önerisi: Akademik Çeviri Bağlamında Araştırma Makalesi Özetlerindeki Çeviri Hataları ve Tercihleri

Despite numerous studies on translation quality, there is a clear necessity for further research and the development of models that provide an empirical and comprehensive assessment of translation quality. Furthermore, the dominance of English as Lingua Franca in academic publications and the widespread use of translation in the academic domain have undoubtedly heightened the necessity for studies on the quality of academic translations. In this context, this study aims to propose a new translation quality assessment model and to evaluate the translation quality of research article abstracts. The abstracts were collected through the purposive sampling method with the help of a survey prepared under pre-determined criteria. In this manner, the translations of a total of 50 research article abstracts in the Turkish-English language pair that met the specified criteria were evaluated through the proposed model. The results indicated that the most prevalent category of translation errors was linguistic errors (61%), followed by other categories. The translations deemed to be of superior quality and less erroneous were those produced by professional translators. The findings indicated that the quality of the translations varied depending on several factors, including the translator and the translation method employed. In addition to proposing a novel translation quality assessment model and testing it empirically, the study is expected to contribute to the existing literature on translation quality and preferences in the abstract tradition by providing comprehensive findings.