investigating the effect of narrative intelligence on translation quality

apart from the linguistic ability in translation which has constantly been the focus of scholars in the past decades, many recent arguments and research on translation quality point to the indispensable effect of mental and cognitive aspects of translator on his translation performance. in this paper we sought to implement this psychological approach and to investigate the probable relationship between the new-fangled cognitive concept of narrative intelligence in the area of translation studies and translation quality (tq). the likely relationship between narrative intelligence and translation quality from first language (persian) to foreign language (english) was probed. in this research 104 undergraduate translation students took part. the findings showed that there exist a significant relationship between students' tq and their narrative intelligence. all the subcategories of narrative intelligence also proved a significant relation between tq and narrative intelligence. in addition, there was a significant difference between high and low narrative intelligence translation students participating in this study in regards to their tq. in the end, the findings were discussed and some implications were indicated.