On The Interpreting Course Design For English Majors

As for an interpreting class, language teachers' main duty is to impart interpreting skills to English majors. In the conventional interpreting class ,they seldom dwell on the learning process, on individual needs, or on any of the other considerations that teachers and materials writers take for granted now. When a course needs to be revised or adapted, for whatever reason, one should concentrate on methodology to begin with, and look at classroom techniques as a priority. This is a rather basic methodology available that can meet everyone's needs. Therefore, it appears that teachers will increasingly be called upon to design their own interpreting courses.With a feel of lack of adequate discussion of the interpreting course designing, the author proposes that interpreting-related courses should be designed on the basis of the theoretical framework of interpreter pour traduire, a translation theory founded by the French woman professor Danica Seleskovitch, and the author has put the designed courses into use in interpreting courses so that there is so much help at hand in improving English majors' interpreting competency.