A Case Study Of The Effectiveness Of Interpretation Learning Strategies

With China's entry into WTO and the holding of Olympic 2008 in Beijing and Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the international communication has become increasingly important and the need for interpretation has been greater than ever. More and more qualified interpreters are in great demand nowadays, particularly in the economic center and international cities such as Beijing and Shanghai in China.In Shanghai, an increasing number of college students have been sitting for the interpretation test held by Shanghai Education Bureau, the test which not only contributes to their improvement of English, but also acts as a threshold to a rewarding job after their graduation. Furthermore, interpretation is urgently needed in people's daily work; therefore, a large proportion of employees also show great interest in the exam so as to sharpen their competitiveness in their business. Actually, with the furtherance of China's reform and opening to the outside world, a large number of qualified interpreters are in demand. How to help the students to make progress in their interpretation has been of crucial importance.Though we have to admit that an outstanding interpreter has to bear some necessary qualities such as a good memory, high language proficiency and wide knowledge and so on, the use of strategies is also essential and helpful. Many students spend much time learning interpretation but woefully do not make much progress their study. Research shows that the employment of learning strategies plays an important role in language learning. It has been observed that two students of the same English proficiency perform differently due to their difference in employing learning strategies.However, in the past decades, there were few researches carried out on interpretation learning and training. In spite of some books published on interpretation skills or techniques, no book has been so far published which links interpretation to learning strategies.The author of this paper shows great interest in interpretation learning strategies used by the learner and tries to find out whether the interpretation learning strategies will help learners to improve their interpretation ability more effectively.