چکیده:
The present research aimed to investigate the effect of background MozartClassical music on translator students' performance. In this study, the researchers focused not only on the relationship between music and translation but also on therelationship between music and personality traits. The main question this studytried to answer was whether using background music might enhance students' translation scores. To answer this question, 32 students from Islamic AzadUniversity of Quchan, Iran, participated in this study. They were selected out of 40students, employing Nelson proficiency test and were randomly assigned to two groups. The participants in experimental group were asked to translate three texts accompanied by background music, but the subjects in the control group were asked to translate the same texts without background music during three sessions. Students’ translations were scored based on Kim's (2009) meaning-oriented translation assessment model. Statistical analyses were applied for qualitative data and an interview was designed for the qualitative research question. Researchers concluded that there was a significant difference between the translation scores of the experimental and control groups. The former outperformed the latter group on the translation task.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Impact of Mozart Music on Translator Students' Performance and its Relationship with Students' Extraversion or Introversion Personality Traits Farnaz Ghasemzade1, Ghasem Modarresi*2 1, 2 Department of English, Quchan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran *Corresponding author: qasem.
In this condition, the researchers set out to find a way to improve this situation by the help of music, since many students listen to it in order to alleviate the emotional effects of stress and anxiety when engaged in complex cognitive processing.
1. Is there any significance difference between participants' mean scores on translation task due to the use of background Mozart music?
As this study was an attempt to address the issue of background music effect on translation task; the experimental group translated three texts with the same difficulty level in three sessions; but this time they receive Mozart classical music.
Results In order to find the effect of background music on translation quality, the data analysis of the current study followed a straightforward analysis including two major phases.
Hypothesis Testing Music and translation scores For the first quantitative questions, the following hypothesis was formulated: H0 1 - There is not any significant difference between participants' mean scores on translation task and the use of background Mozart music.
Therefore, the answer to the research question is positive, that is, there is a significant difference between the subjects' mean scores on the translation task due to the use of background music."