A Survey On Skill-based Interpreting Course Books-From The Perspective Of Schema Theory

With the increasingly close relationship between China and the world, interpreting is enjoying remarkable need and developing toward professionalism.In terms of interpreting learning,most of interpreting learners tend to fall back on interpreting course books besides in-class professional teaching.Therefore, interpreting course books play a significant role in interpreting teaching and learning. At present,interpreting course books enjoy large quantity but their qualities differ in thousands ways.In general,two compiling methods are highlighted:subject-based and skill-based.In recent years,the skill-based interpreting course books gradually begin to be accepted by interpreting learners and become the mainstream on the market.Through the analysis of interpreting process,this paper finds that schemata considerably contribute to interpreting comprehension and reproduction.Based on this,the author attempts to introduce schema theory into the compilation of interpreting course books.In order to testify this hypothesis,a questionnaire survey on 66 postgraduates majoring in translation is carried out,which is followed by three schemata the author puts forward in compiling interpreting course books,namely, skill schema,subject schema and linguistic schema.Then the author conducts a comparative analysis on four authoritative skill-based interpreting course books from the perspective of these three schemata and draws the conclusion that these three schemata can be used to guide the compilation of interpreting course books.On the basis of these theoretical analysis and questionnaire survey,the author ultimately proposes his compiling suggestions from the perspective of schema theory and expects to enlighten the scientific and systematic compilation of interpreting course books in the future.