Fundamental Considerations In Interpreting Teaching And Training

In a world with heavy interchanges in the arenas of culture, politics, economics, and foreign affairs, the more advanced our society has evolved, the more important interpretation has become. Researches on both interpretation and its teaching are, however, on the beginning stage, far away from the society's future demands on potential interpreters. As a result, we need to explore further in the field of interpretation in hopes that the gaps in the field will be abridged and the standards be raised.With findings in psycholinguistics and pragmatics, scholars have provided a vivid picture of the reformulation process in interpreting and analyzed in different angles the occurrences of errors in the process. It is generally accepted that a skill-centered training should be conducted in interpreting teaching. On the basis of existing findings, the author advocates competence development in interpreting teaching. Since interpreting is a complex communicative act, a comprehensive competence is required for an interpreter to fulfill interpreting assignment successfully. He should apply skill competence on the basis of knowledge competence and at the same time adopt psychophysiology competence so as to achieve desirable performance Some relevant issues concerning interpreting teaching and training are discussed ,such as the design of the syllabus. The author also proposes an open teaching pattern so as to realize sharing resource and intellectual communication in the hope that it may be of help to the promotion of interpreting teaching. It is by now a tentative pattern which is to be verified through practice.