A Study Of The Correlation Between Receiving Ears And Delivery In English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation

In multiple situations, simultaneous interpreters face problems of choosing receiving ears. Will that influence delivery? If so, what’s the optimal choice? Based on Effort Model from Daniel Gile and an improved version of dichotic experiment and Sylvie Lambert’s previous experiment, this research expands the scope of the experiment, aiming to explore the effect of receiving ear on delivery and what’s the best choice for simultaneous interpreters.Through quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, the conclusions have been made as the following:Left-ear+part-of-right-ear-input outperforms other choices, but not that better than two-ear-input. Even in some aspects, two-ear-input performs the best. And if two-ear-input is not included, right-ear-input’s performance is relatively stable though it’s not the best. As a result, the conclusions are in line with that of Sylvie Lambert’s experiment, but with extension and elaboration. The research adds left-ear+part-of-right-ear-input and right-ear+part-of-left-ear-input and two-ear-input ranks only second to left-ear+part-of-right-ear-input in multiple aspects, thus overthrowing the REA conclusion and the one that people can only pay attention to the information from one ear. In addition, most of the interpreters who consciously choose their receiving ears will voluntarily prolong their EVS.