A Study On The Major Factors In Training English Majors To Be Qualified Interpreters

With the world economic globalization, the demand for qualified interpreters has been increasing all the time and the requirements for them are much higher in China. For the increasing demand, universities and colleges, which are the largest bases for foreign language training, are confronted with challenges of cultivating qualified interpreters to fulfill the social needs.Nowadays many universities and colleges in China are dedicated to training qualified interpreters and they want English majors to gain basic interpreting skills after their graduation with which these students can be qualified for some basic interpretation tasks. Being different from language teaching or professional interpretation training, interpretation teaching in high education period is special in its choosing teachers, teaching materials and teaching methods.The thesis aims at finding what factors count in interpretation teaching through analyzing interpretation and requirements for qualified interpreters. The author hope the study can make some contributions to interpretation teaching in China.In the thesis, the author first reviews fundamentals of interpretation, such as definition, classification, features and development, etc. and then makes a brief introduction to some main theoretical contributions on interpretation. On the basis of some major interpretation theories, the author analyzes basic requirements for qualified interpreters and brings out some correspondent views and methods about interpreting teaching for English majors in China. Through illustrations, interpreting skills are better analyzed, so as to improve the interpreting competence like listening skills, note-taking skills, and so on. The resources, goals, methods and evaluation of teaching are analyzed in detail. The author points out that for the purpose of improving interpretation teaching effects and promoting the development of interpretation career, we can systematically make a scientific teaching design from the angle of the interpreter's qualifications and keep on adjusting the teaching progress so as to maximize the teaching effects. In the end, the author gives some suggestions on existing problems in interpretation teaching.