Towards Defining a Specific Text as a Valid Instrument in Translation Quality Evaluation Studies: A Conceptual Paper

This conceptual paper is an attempt to present and highlight the features required for the selected text as an instrument in translation studies which researchers should consider .This is a step towards making the translation studies more scientific. To fulfil the paper`s purpose, the author discussed some researches findings and based on the some findings, such as Conde`s (2009) ones, tried to present a standard framework to researchers to select a text as the instrument for translation quality assessment in quantitative translation studies. Finally the author brought some features up briefly named the length of the text and the readability information of the text resulted from reasons discussed in details in this paper.