Advance Translation—The Remedy to Improve Translatability of Source Questionnaires? Results of a Think-Aloud Study

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Field Methods Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI:10.1177/1525822X211072343

Brita Dorer

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Abstract

Advance translation is a method of source questionnaire development for multilingual survey projects to enhance translatability and (inter)cultural portability. The aim is to minimize translation issues in the final translation stage. I empirically tested the results of a previously conducted advance translation in a think-aloud study and analyzed the utterances made in a mixed-method approach, calculating chi-square statistics and cross-checking these by observational notes of the think-aloud sessions. My study confirms the usefulness of advance translation in making source items better to translate, thus improving final translation quality. It appears to be particularly useful for comprehensibility issues of the source text, irrespective of the target language. I recommend that advance translations be carried out into all languages and cultures into which the final source questionnaire is to be translated. This will improve source questionnaire translatability and, thus, final translation and overall cross-cultural data quality.

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高级翻译——提高源调查表可译性的补救措施？Think Aloud研究结果

高级翻译是一种为多语言调查项目开发源问卷的方法，以提高可翻译性和（跨）文化的可移植性。目的是在最后翻译阶段尽量减少翻译问题。我在一项大声思考研究中实证测试了之前进行的预先翻译的结果，并分析了以混合方法产生的话语，计算卡方统计数据，并通过大声思考会话的观察笔记进行交叉检查。我的研究证实了提前翻译在使源项目更好地翻译，从而提高最终翻译质量方面的有用性。它似乎对源文本的可理解性问题特别有用，而不考虑目标语言。我建议预先翻译成最终来源调查表所要翻译成的所有语言和文化。这将提高源问卷的可翻译性，从而提高最终翻译和整体跨文化数据质量。

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