Behzad Ghonsooly
List of John Benjamins publications for which Behzad Ghonsooly plays a role.
2018 The relationship between burnout and personality: A case of Iranian translation students Babel 64:5/6, pp. 840–864 | Article
This study is an attempt to address the issue of examining the relationship between burnout and personality among translation students. Recent trends in student/academic burnout have led to a proliferation of studies which have heightened the need for the exploration of this construct that is… read more
2018 Investigating problem-solving strategies of translation trainees with high and low levels of self-efficacy Translation, Cognition & Behavior 1:1, pp. 74–97 | Article
Translatology adopts psychological and cognitive approaches to study the complex processes underlying translational phenomena. As such, it deals with both translations and the translators who produce them. The present study uses think-aloud protocols and keystroke logging to explore the impact… read more
2014 An exploration of the interrelationships among EFL learners’ English self-efficacy, metacognitive awareness, and their test performance: A structural equation modeling approach Pragmatics & Cognition 22:3, pp. 325–339 | Article
This study examined the interrelationships among selected cognitive characteristics of Iranian EFL learners including English self-efficacy, metacognitive awareness, and their test performance. For this purpose, a model was proposed based on empirical studies and was tested using structural… read more
2011 Flow in translation: Exploring optimal experience for translation trainees Target 23:2, pp. 251–271 | Article
The study reported here examined the amount and quality of flow experienced by trainee translators while translating different text genres. Flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1975) is an optimal experience, characterized by intense focus, control, interest and skills-challenge balance that leads to enhanced… read more