Improvement Of Interpreting Teaching From The Perspective Of Interpreting Features And Interpreter Qualities

The teaching of interpreting is entirely different from the teaching of languages and translation. It should conform to its own teaching methods and principles, embody the interpreting characteristics, and equip students with the qualities a qualified interpreter possesses. In this connection, this paper firstly elaborates the interpreting characteristics and interpreter qualities. Then, theories of interpreting teaching are systematically reviewed and introduced in this paper.How is the actual situation of Chinese interpreting teaching at present? As a teacher, bearing this question in mind, this author has found that Chinese research on interpreting teaching has just made a start and a lot of inadequacies have still existed in the actual teaching pratice. In order to probe deeper into this field, this author conducted a small-scale survey through the "review" and "questionnaire" which was designed by herself according to her limited teaching experience and peculiar interpreting teaching theories. It mainly makes a general survey of the teaching content, the teaching means and the extracurricular activities of interpreting teaching.Finally, on the basis of the results, this author put forward some tentative and detailed suggestions on how to improve the interpreting teaching from the perspective of interpreting characteristics and interpreter qualities.