Abstract

Critical thinking and anxiety influenced the translation competence of translators. This study sought to examine the interactions between critical thinking, attitude, and anxiety influenced the translation competence of translators. This study adopted an empirical approach to collect data from 145 student translators from many colleges in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. Data were analyzed by using structural equation modelling to find out the relationship between the study factors. The results indicated that there was a negative relationship between AI anxiety with critical thinking and attitude. However, there was a strong positive relationship between attitude with critical thinking, and Machine Translation anxiety. Also, there was a positive relationship between Machine Translation anxiety with AI anxiety and critical thinking.

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