Seminar Penterjemahan Kebangsaan

10| Seminar Penterjemahan Kebangsaan Perceived motivators and inhibitors among prospective academic traslators SUHAIMI MHD SARIF International Islamic University Malaysia suhaimims@iium.edu.my YUSOF ISMAIL International Islamic University Malaysia yusof.edu@gmail.com ~ ABSTRACT ~ Academics at higher learning institutions conduct research and write articles for journals and conferences, among others. They have general as well as knowledge about their respective areas of expertise and research interest. They possess writing proficiency. Since writing is second nature to the teaching-researching profession, are academics generally inclined towards translation? This study is carried out to answer a number of related questions, which include: motivators and inhibitors to translation of academic and non-academic works. Motivators are personal as well as organizational factors that encourage academics to engage in translation, whereas inhibitors refer to factors that discourage the academics to be involved in the engagement. The study plans to discover the two opposing factors from the academics in social sciences through open-ended interviews using the social media platform. Target informants would be the academics who have been servicing their institution for five years and less in order to compare their contribution towards journal and conference papers and translation works, if any. The transcribed answers will be content-analyzed to identify major factors for motivators and inhibitors in translation work. The paper desires to provide broad recommendations to would be translators, university policy makers and the publishers. KEYWORDS Inhibitor, instructor, motivator, publication, research, tenure, translation