Abstract:

Foreign language teaching methods and approaches have changed over the years, sometimes have lost their effect and sometimes have gained importance again. This characteristic feature of the methods also applies to the use of translation. Some positive and negative opinions about the translation have emerged during this period. These perceptions towards translation can also affect students' attitudes in today's foreign language education environments. The determination of students' perceptions towards translation will give an idea about their approach to language learning, and thus, a suitable ground will be formed for the preparation of efficient syllabuses. In this study, a scale called “The Inventory for Beliefs about Translation: IBT developed by Liao (2002) to measure the translation perceptions of Taiwanese college students is aimed to be adapted to Turkish and to present to the service of the researchers. The approval of the ethics committee of the scale was unanimously accepted by the Gazi University Ethics Committee on March 31, 2016 at the meeting number 04. Within the scope of the study, the language validity of the scale is provided in the first stage, and then, the analyzes of the data obtained from 325 students who learned French as a foreign language at Gazi and Hacettepe Universities in 2017-2018, were analyzed and the structural validity and factor structures of the scales were determined and their sub-dimensions were renamed. At the end of the language and construct validity and internal reliability studies, “Çeviriye Bakış Açısı Ölçeği (ÇEBAÖ)”  with 3 factors and 19 items with a coefficient of reliability α = 0.87 was obtained. This adaptation study results, point out the reliability and validity of the scale is high and can be used by researchers in Turkey to different sample groups easily and safely to reveal the language students’ perceptions about translation.

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