A Practice Report On Simultaneous Interpretation For The 10^th World Congress On Conductive Education

This report was based on an English-Chinese simultaneous interpretation practice.The author participated in the 10^thWorld Congress on Conductive Education（China）hosted by András Pet?Faculty from November 9 to December 1,2020 as an interpreter.Though the interpreting assignment posed great challenges to the author for its being cross-disciplinary,multi-topic,and remotely online,the task was still smoothly fulfilled with the help of pre-interpreting preparation.Guided by Cognitive Load Theory of John Sweller,this report analyzed real examples from the practice and explored the influence of pre-interpreting preparation on the interpreter’s on-site performance.On the basis of case analysis,the report first stated that preparation for terminology and background information could boost germane cognitive load and increase output fluency and accuracy during interpretation;then the report described the challenges caused by high density of information,syntactic complexity and interpreting anxiety.Four corresponding strategies were proposed to cope with these challenges,namely accumulating solution schema,deverbalization,imagination effect,and worked-example effect,with a view to providing reference for pre-interpreting preparation of simultaneous English-Chinese interpreting and providing help to interpreting learners and researchers.