An Experimental Study Of Teaching Strategies For Training Information Store Skills In Interpreting

Nowadays, in the face of the urgent need for qualified interpreters in China growing along with China's increasing integration into the whole world to wipe out the stubborn language barrier in the way of international communication and exchange, the supply is in severe shortage and the present teaching system of interpretation course is not functioning well enough to produce qualified interpreters in batches or cover the imbalance between demand and supply.However, in China, the empirical studies attempting to investigate the feasible and effective teaching strategies for training professional skills needed for interpretation are relatively few due to the complexity of implementing interpretation teaching as well as the difficulties in data collecting and analysis. For this reason, this exploratory study was undertaken with the purpose of providing some feasible and effective teaching strategies and techniques for interpretation teaching in the future.As interpretation is a sophisticated organism involving too many functions of constituent parts, it will be a giant project to deal with the whole. So in the present exploratory study, only the teaching of one aspect of it falls into the researcher's concern, i.e. the information store skills in interpreting.In order to investigate what kinds of specific teaching strategies and techniques can be employed for training the skills concerned, and whether those strategies and techniques have significant effect on helping improve trainees'information store skills, the relevant teaching strategies and techniques were designed and devised in the study, and descriptive statistics, Paired-Samples T test were performed to analyze the achievements in the store and the output of information of source language for interpretation in target language by 30 members of the Interpreters Team of a key University. In addition, Mann-Whitney U tests and Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed to find out whether the factors like gender, English proficiency, previous interpreting experiences have something to do with trainees'information store skills and the development of them, and whether their intrinsic ability in this regard exert influence on the development. Conclusion was drawn as following: first, the information store skills can be improved by training and the teaching strategies and techniques devised are quite effective in training information store skills. Moreover, in this study, factors like gender and previous interpreting experiences do not have influential power on the ability in this regard, while English proficiency might have certain influence on it and the intrinsic ability do have power on the development of it.The present study displayed the effective teaching of one aspect of skills needed for quality interpretation, which encourages further in-depth study in the field of interpretation teaching to add more vigor and strength to it so as to meet the demand of the times.