On The Objective And Strategies Of Undergraduate Interpreting Teaching For Foreign Language Majors

This thesis explores the objective and strategies of the undergraduate interpreting teaching for foreign language majors on the basis of the analysis of its current situation in order to make contributions to its improvement. The undergraduate interpreting teaching for foreign language majors plays a very important role in China's interpreting education, but its quality isn't very satisfying. In the author's opinion, lack of a clear and rational objective and lack of effective strategies are the two major problems affecting its teaching quality. In order to know more about the actuality of the undergraduate interpreting teaching for foreign language majors, the author carries out a survey among the teachers and the students in the English department of two universities—Ocean University China and East China Normal University, and gets a lot of valuable information in various aspects such as the student's quality and motives, teaching conditions, teaching effect, and the major difficulties facing the teachers and the students.Based on the results of investigation, the author explores the objectives and strategies of undergraduate interpreting teaching for foreign language majors by integrating the achievements in education and interpreting studies. The author criticizes two wrong tendencies in objective in teaching practice, advocates regarding the undergraduate interpreting course as an elementary course in interpreting, and puts forward a definition of objectives in both the cognitive domain and affective domain. The center of this definition is"The students are able to cope with the interpreting tasks of'technician level'(escort interpreting and in-house interpreting)". Under the guidance of this definition, the author has a relatively comprehensive discussion and proposes suggestions on the strategies of undergraduate interpreting teaching in such aspects as teaching content, teaching procedure, focal points in skill training, and classroom management。The author hopes that this thesis could offer some help for the improvement of the undergraduate interpreting teaching for foreign language majors.