Influence Of Working Memory On The Faithfulness Of Consecutive Interpretation Between English And Chinese Among Advanced Chinese Interpreting Learners

Working memory was first proposed by Baddeley and Hitch,and has since then attracted plenty of academic attention.Since it has a direct bearing on interpreting performance,the interaction between an interpreter's working memory and quality of his interpreted work has been a focus for interpreting studies.This thesis pays special attention to one aspect of interpreting quality—faithfulness,and looks into the statis-tical correlation between an interpreter's working memory and the information faith-fulness of his consecutive interpretation between Chinese and English.The thesis is composed of seven chapters.Chapter One introduces the back-ground,main focus and purpose of the research.Chapter Two summarizes previous literature that is most relevant to the current research.Building upon previous re-search,Chapter Three establishes the theoretical framework,which justifies and guides the whole research process.Chapter Four focuses on the involved experiment,clarifying essential matters including hypothesis,variables,execution and data collec-tion.The data collected is put to careful analysis in Chapter Five,where the statistical correlation between the variables is worked out.Chapter Six examines such correla-tion,trying to identify the rationale behind.The last chapter concludes the thesis by revisiting the experiment and its turnout.Moreover,it presents the limitations this study has and its implications for future research.The thesis finds that the working memory of advanced Chinese interpreting learners is positively and moderately correlated with both their Chinese-English and English-Chinese consecutive interpretation faithfulness.This study expects to enrich the quantitative studies into the relationship between working memory and interpret-ing quality,and to give implications for future research into the field.