Improvement In Performance Of E-C Ci With Accents In Light Of Effort Model

With intense exchanges between China and the rest of the world regarding politics, economy and culture, interpretation has been playing an ever important role. As international franc lingua, English functions as the most significant bridge among different cultures. In some occasions and subject to some reasons, speakers whose mother tongues are not English have to deliver speeches in English. To this end, the speeches naturally carry strong accents with them which add more pressure on the interpreters. To improve the interpreting performance in consecutive interpreting with accented speeches, this paper takes a bold step to propose a strategy to the benefit of the interpreters.During the introduction part, this paper reviewed about the general situation of the accent problems.In the First Chapter, it describes about the accent problems in details and shows some strategies to deal with the problem and some limitations in this regard.The Second Chapter follows with two sets of experiments which try to find out the necessary and possible strategy. From the perspective of negative language transfer, some features of the four accents: Chinese English, Korean English, Indian English and Dutch English haven been drawn on the basis of the past literatures. The first set of experiments has been done to get the general features of the phonemic deviations and gives evidence that interpreters are influenced by the accents. Then, backed by the theoretical foundations of Effort Model, Schema Theory and evaluation system, the features of the first experiment are used to test whether they are efficient to help interpreters. At last, the second experiment proves that strategy does work effectively.In conclusion, the author calls for more frequent usage of the strategy and dwells on the limitations of the paper and gives visions for future study.