A comparative Study on the Impact of Instructing Translation Models on Iranian Law Student’s Translation Performance

The present study tries to explore weather an experimental application of teaching translation models can positively affect the translation quality of law students. To this end, a mixed method study was conducted on two randomly selected classes including 56 participants at Islamic Azad University, Mashhad branch, Mahshhad, Iran. Also, in order to determine the level of proficiency of the participants in both groups, the same Nelson proficiency test was first administered to all of them. Students in both groups were asked to translate some law texts from English into Persian and the outputs of the two groups were compared to assess the impact of teaching translation models. Results showed that those students who taught translation models performed better in translating English law texts in comparison to those learners who were not familiar with translation models. In other words, the study revealed that translation strategies had a positive effect on law students' translation performance. Due to these findings, the results hopefully, can be useful to suggest establishing translator-training courses for special purposes.