The experimental study examining the effect of subject area knowledge on translation quality

This thesis aims to contribute to the research on the effect of subject area knowledge on the quality of translation focusing on a sports field: football. An experiment was conducted with a sample of university students in which they were divided into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. During the experiment, both groups took a pre-test translation task. Then, the experimental group participated in a 4-week special training program in the field of football. The control group continued their normal education in the department. Following the training program, both groups took a post-test translation task. Results were evaluated in terms of three categories: translation quality, terminology, and accuracy. The result of the pre-test translation task shows that there were no significant differences between the two groups. However, the result of the post-test translation task shows that there were significant differences between the two groups and also there were significant differences between the pre-test and post-test translation results of the experimental group. It was observed that experimental group participants who went through the training program performed better results compared to control group participants. This thesis aims to help emphasize the importance of subject area knowledge training in the translation process by focusing on football which to my knowledge, has not been studied in translation studies in terms of the effect of subject area knowledge