Abstract

Objectives: This study investigates the accuracy of translation by visually-impaired students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) at the University of Nizwa. This case study aims to evaluate the translation accuracy and identify the challenges encountered by these students in translation tasks. Methods: A translation accuracy assessment called Nababan's Theory was administered to two visually-impaired students VIS who were in different proficiency levels. Students A and B were asked to translate ten sentences, including five from Arabic to English, and five from English to Arabic. This assessment was conducted within a time frame of one hour and was evaluated under the supervision of translation assessors. Results: Results depict that student A scored "inaccurate" performance for both languages; on the other hand, student B scored between the "less accurate" and "accurate" performance as an average of both English and Arabic. Overall, this study suggests that there are many factors contributing to the accuracy of translation including the linguistic skills, type of translation genre and linguistic repertoire. Conclusions: The study recommends providing instructional practices that accommodate the needs of students with visual impairments, alongside the use of assistive technologies, as these measures can contribute to improving the accuracy of their translation performance.