READ ME File For 'Data for PhD thesis “Directionality in Chinese-English Translation: An Investigation of Cognitive Efforts and Decision-making Focussing on the Translation of Allusions"' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2146 ReadMe Author: HAIMENG REN, University of Southampton ORCID ID 0000-0002-4507-9205 This dataset supports the thesis entitled AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2022 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This includes the data collected throughout translation experimental test, from eye-tracking, key-logging, and retrospective interview, to investigate the allocation of cognitive effort and the performances of student translators in Chinese and English allusion translation.SPSS is needed to open the data. This dataset contains: The data from participants'pre-test and post-test survey; The transcribed data from participants' retrospective interview recording; The eye-tracking of each participant that record the fixation allocated during the whole translation process; The key-logging data with timestamp of each participants doing the translation, together with their TTs. Date of data collection: March, 2019-May 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: Beijing, China Licence: [ADD IN] Related projects/Funders: [ADD IN] Related publication: [ADD IN] Date that the file was created: March, 2022