Note-taking In Consecutive Interpreting

Note-taking is a useful skill for consecutive interpreting. As an important memory aid, notes can ensure the success of interpreting when done properly or may cause failure if taken the wrong way.In recent years, about158institutions have received permission from Ministry of Education to host MTI (Master of Translation and Interpreting) programs, which target at training professional translators and interpreters. Both full-time and part-time students are enrolled in the MTI programs. The training offered for both are basically the same, but the latter differs from the former in that part-time students have more time off-campus and need to rely mostly on self-training and practice. Ways need to be developed to help working MTI students to train themselves. This dissertation takes working MTI as an example to discuss suitable ways of CI note-taking training for those students.This dissertation is composed of six parts including introduction and conclusion.Chapter I is the introduction specifying the purpose of this dissertation, research background and significance.Chapter II gives a review on the literature home and abroad in this line.Chapter III defines the CI notes, its importance of its existence and its relation to memory, subsequently their interaction with CI performance and quality. It also classifies current CI note-taking training and provides new insights.Chapter IV discusses tailor-made training for working MTI. Some methods are presented, their practicabilities and how they can be carried out are also discussed. Chapter V serves as a conclusion to all aspects mentioned above. This dissertation hopes that more attention can be paid to customized training for working MTI students.