| A growing number of researches have been carried out in the field of oral interpretation and on the topic of working memory due to the public's increasing interests and benefits obtained from the profession of oral interpreters. Another reason is that there have been considerable advancements and achievements in the research of working memory and the role working memory plays in complex cognitive tasks such as language comprehension and oral interpretation. The present study attempts to apply the working memory theory to the research on consecutive interpretation (CI) from English to Chinese. In addition, the relationship between the individual difference on working memory span (WMS) and the individual difference on interpretation performance is also investigated.The rationales of Baddeley's working memory model, Daneman and Carpenter's WMS test and capacity theory of comprehension as well as Gile's effort model for CI are adopted in this study since it mainly deals with working memory, WMS and CI.The present study proposes two hypotheses as follows: Hypothesis One: Subjects with higher WMS would achieve better performance inconsecutive interpretation.Hypothesis Two: According to the results obtained from the listening span task which tests individual's WMS, those subjects who perform better in processing the sentences (processing) than just remembering the final words of the sentences (storage) achieve better interpreting. Altogether, there are 30 subjects of junior students majoring in English participate in the study composed of two tests. One is the WMS test. And the other involves the consecutive interpretation of two speeches.In addition, the listening comprehension scores of the subjects in Band 4 Test for English major students are introduced to the study for the discussion on the possible correlation between listening comprehension and CI performance.The present study adopts version 12.0 of SPSS software for the calculation and...
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