Dynamic Process Of Consecutive Interpreting And Note-taking Training In Interpreting Teaching

The studies of interpretation and teaching methodologies have developed by leaps and bounds, but most of interpreters and scholars only focus on some static studies and show little concern about the dynamic process of interpretation. At the same time, they neglect the significance of logic thinking and the importance of memory. Actually, the dynamic study can reveal the secret of interpretation’s process and summarize the principle of thinking model. Owing to the popularity of consecutive interpretation, the increasingly attention has been paid to the effect of memory studies of consecutive interpretation between English and Chinese. This thesis, based on the Daniel Gile’Effort Model and Paris Interpretative Theory of Translation, borrowing the fruit of psychological theory, intends to explore the dynamic thinking and note-taking methodology.The thesis analyzes three kinds of human memories and the relationship with the interpretation. Based on the theory of cognitive psychology, memory refers to the information process system including coding, memory and information retrieval. Human memory consists of sensory memory, short-memory and long-term memory, which are the stages in the sequence of processing information. The input information that transfers into long-term memory has passed through sensory memory and short-term memory firstly, and they distinguish from each other in terms of the amount of information, duration of information and the ways of information processing.On the other hand, the author also pays a lot of attention to the note-taking stage. According to long-term observation and study, the coordination between source language storage and note-taking stage is the most difficult challenge for the beginner. According to Interpretative Theory of Interpretation, interpreters listen to and identify the phonetic sounds of SL through analysis, synthesis and inferences; at the same time, they comprehend the input information through analysis, synthesis with the help of topic knowledge and other cognitive knowledge, and they also take notes to help memorize the comprehended information; at last they re-express the information in target language completely and accurately. Therefore, the memory should be trained before note-taking training so as to get a more efficient result. The thesis consists of five chapters:Chapterl is about literature review. The author offers the definition of interpretation, its classification and its long history. Chapter2is concerning theoretic framework. It gives a specific introduction of Daniel Gile’s Effort Model and Seleskovith’s Interpretative Theory and its development at home and abroad. Chapter3explores dynamic thinking based on some psychological theory. Chapter4illustrates the note-taking training based on previous analysis. At last, the author specially analyzes the method of note-taking training of numbers. Chapter5is about major findings and limitation.