Improving Motivation in Translator Training: Achievement Goal Orientations of Translation Studies Students

Abstract

In order to improve the student
 motivation, this study aims to determine the opinions of Translation Studies
 students about achievement goal orientations in terms of variables such as
 gender, department, class and perception of academic achievement. Research is
 based on the relational screening model and the research data was collected by
 using the Goal Orientations Scale adapted to Turkish by Akın & Çetin
 (2007). During the academic year 2017-2018, 242 students studying in the
 German, French and English Translation Studies Departments at a state
 university participated in the research. As a result, it was observed that learning
 orientation, one of the three sub-dimensions of achievement goal orientations,
 varies significantly by gender and perception of academic achievement; and
 performance-approach orientation, other sub-dimension, by department and
 gender. No statistically significant relationship was found between variables
 and performance-avoidance orientation, the third sub-dimension.