background and aim: although play seems to be a simple concept, it is complex and varies according to individual experiences. play is a process that follows no rule. it is a spontaneous, funny, flexible, completely attractive, vital, and challenging behavior that aims at no goal. pretend play starts in childhood since 18 months. the play is a potential source for assessment of academic skills a...

inthis paperwe try to study theprobability ofguessing themeaning ofwords without continuosly referring to thedictionary for translation.if this is a useful method,we can teach it to translators.the questions this research tries to answer are as follows:1)can we differentiate the different sorts of words(simple,compound and derivational words)intranslation inaway thatwe would nottneed to continu...

in this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the translation studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. the participants of this research were thirty one iranian senior translation studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational le...

the name of sadegh hedayat(1903-1951) reminds many people of a pioneering author in fiction, with works having a lot of advocates and opponents.  hence, many studies have been conducted regarding his works in the area of stories and translation from french, but his researches on and translations from the pahlavi language has less been noticed and analysed, however, he was one of the leading aut...

This research aimed at investigating different strategies used by translators in translating political English concepts into Persian between two revolutions. To this purpose, the researchers extracted and examined six cases of English political concepts from a book called “Iran between Two Revolutions” and their corresponding Persian translations. Qualitative research was used to gain insights ...

This paper proposes machine learning techniques, which help disambiguate word meaning. These methods focus on considering the relationship between a word and its surroundings, described as context information in the paper. Context information is produced from rule-based translation such as part-ofspeech tags, semantic concept, case relations and so on. To automatically extract the context infor...

In one form or another language translation is a necessary part of cross-lingual information retrieval systems. Often times this is accomplished using machine translation systems. However, machine translation systems offer low quality for their high costs. This paper proposes a machine translation method that is low cost while improving translation quality. This is done by utilizing multiple we...

considering research contributions to translation studies in the iranian context , especially in the recent years , there is a remarkable improvement in terms of both quality and quantity of these studies . most of these studies can be classified in one of the following groups: ( 1 ) the studies which adopt a linguistic -oriented approach , ( 2 ) those with non - linguistic orientations coverin...