Material development is important for training beginner student interpreters, as it guides the direction of interpreting learning. One key principle is difficulty progression, which requires a good knowledge of the indicators of difficulty. Since text structure outweighs words and sentences in the information processing of consecutive…

Measuring the quality of information and communication technology (ICT) tools and their impact on learning outcomes is not an easy task. Carol Chapelle, the leading authority on the evaluation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tools, wrote in 2008: 'Evaluation of innovation is perhaps the most significant challenge teachers and…

Review of the available literature suggests that empirical studies on the human factors in English translation programs both in Iran and worldwide are few and that theoretical views on the issue are also mainly tentative. This study set up to investigate the motivating and demotivating factors associated with learning translation in the Iranian…