An Investigation of Rater Effects on L2 Translation Performance Scores
An Investigation of Rater Effects on L2 Translation Performance Scores

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the impact of L2 translation quality and rating experience on raters’scoring behaviours and the reliability and variability of scores. It also investigates frequentlyused decision-making strategies applied by raters assigning scores to different qualities oftranslation papers produced by Turkish EFL students. In total, 80 translation papers (40 low-quality and 40 high-quality) obtained from the participants were given to 10 raters to score usinga translation scoring rubric. Results revealed that less experienced raters were more positivewhile scoring the students’ translation performances and assigned higher and more consistentscores to the papers.

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