Translation ability in Hindi-English bilingual young, middile and geriatric adults with normal communication ability: A comparative study

Pages: 1265-1273
Vivek Kumar Jha (Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana)
Ratnesh Kumar Sharma (R. P. Institute of Speech and Audiology, Karnal, Haryana)

The present study aimed to examine the translation ability in Hindi-English bilingual speakers. A descriptive research design with purposive sampling technique was used in the current study. A total of 60 bilingual speakers of Hindi and English in the age range of 18 to 78 years participated in this study. The participants were divided in to three groups having 20 Participants in each. They were labeled as Group A, Group B, and Group C. The present study aimed to examine the translation ability in Hindi-English bilingual speakers on different tasks such as word recognition, word translation, sentence translation and grammaticality judgment. The results were enumerated here in four sections, namely: Overall Category wise performance on Hindi – English BAT. Comparison of performance in terms of age, i.e., between young, middle and geriatric adults. Comparison of performance in terms of education. Comparison of performance in relation to age of second language acquisition. Summary: Age of acquisition of second language was higher that is mean age of 9.5 year when compare to group A and B which is 7.55 and 7.35 respectively.