| The outbreak of COVID-19 has changed the teaching model of international education.In order to ensure that education can be carried out as scheduled,some Chinese students who apply to study abroad have followed the arrangement of schools and started to take classes remotely.As a class interpreter working for NEUST to assist Information System Theory course for MSIT,the interpreter uses the corpus of remote class interpreting practice,consisting of seven consecutive videos,including the teacher’s teaching process,students’ demonstration,and explanation of the assignment and interaction between the two parties.The corpus lasts for 699 minutes and 49 seconds in total,and the transcription is appropriately 132,658 words.By comparing traditional on-site class interpreting and remote class interpreting,this practice report finds that remote interpreting can relieve the stress of the interpreter.In addition,the interpreter can solve some emergency requirements with online web pages and online dictionaries if time permits.But remote interpretation requires a higher quality of network stability and hardware equipment,and the breakdown of the network or equipment has increased the difficulty of receiving information,which may affect the quality of the interpreting output.What’s more,the interpreter is more likely to be ignored by the speaker;besides,the interpreter can’t capture the deep meaning of the speaker by noticing his or her paralanguage.Based on the Effort Model proposed by Daniel Gile,this practice report analyzes the interpretation difficulties which can be divided into two parts: information comprehension and language expression.It includes the information input difficulties caused by the long speaking turn of the speaker and the lack of specialized knowledge of the interpreter.Insufficient interpreting output such as information redundancy and filled pauses.In view of the difficulties mentioned above,this report summarizes the specific strategies that the interpreter applies to deal with such problems,such as simplifying information structure,summarizing redundant information,supplementing missing information,and zero translation strategies. |
