The Effect of Illustration as a Visual Text on the Translation of Only Nooglebooglers Glow in the Dark Regarding the Level of Readability

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of the omission of illustration from verbal text on the quality of translation of MA translation students of children picture book regarding the level of readability. The researcher adopted the Flesch readability formula to obtain the readability level of translations in the target text. To do this, the researcher selected the children picture book Only Nooglebooglers Glow in the Dark written by James McKnight and illustrated by Mark Chambers and selected two pages of the book for translation by participants. First of all, to homogenize the participants regarding the level of language proficiency, the researcher took proficiency test to assure that all participants had the same level language proficiency. Then, the translation test was held which consisted of two pages for translation. Each participant was expected to translate two pages of picture book. The first page included just verbal text and the second page involved both verbal and visual text .Next, the researchercalculated the readability level of translations for each participant by Flesch readability formula. By using the pair-sample T-test, the results showed that the readability level of second page of translation which involved both text and illustration was higher. Therefore, the omission of illustration from verbal text had significant effect on the quality of translation of children picture book.

کلیدواژه ها:

Flesch New Reading Ease (FNRE) ، illustration ، readability ، target text ، verbal text ، visual text