Do Multilingual Speakers Understand the Bible Best in Their Heart Language?: A Tool for Comparing Comprehension of Translations in Vernacular Languages and Languages of Wider Communication

It has been argued that speakers who are fluent in a vernacular and language of wider communication (LWC) will inevitably understand the Scriptures better in their “heart language.” I designed an experiment to determine the validity of that argument, using comprehension checks of seven passages in t...

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Main Author: Nehrbass, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2014
In: The Bible translator
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-103
Further subjects:B comprehension checking
B heart language
B Bilingualism
B checking translations
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