Listening Comprehension And Memory In Interpretation

With the rapid development of Chinese economy and the opening up of the policy, the economic markets are in great need of more and more qualified interpreters. Setting the interpretation course has become the urgent task of the foreign language department of the universities. The interpretation course should focus on the skills training of the interpretation, which includes listening comprehension and memory, the comprehensive ability of analysis, the reformation of the language structure, the distribution of the efforts,the notes-taking skills and the target language expression skills. However, listening comprehension and memory is the first step of interpretation,which is the difficulty of the interpretation,the interpretation should pay more attention to this part,otherwise,the other training skills of interpretation would be useless.Although the research on the interpretation begins late, the interpreting study advances quickly and has gained important achievements. With the development of the research of the interpretation theory,there has been a new trend recently which draws broad attention of the experts and scholars of interpretation. The scholars not only study the interpretation within the linguistic scope, but also from the interdisciplinary studies,such as psycholinguistics, psychology, cognitive psychology and neurology to develop the research of the interpretation.This thesis makes the research of the listening comprehension and memory of the interpretation from the theory of linguistic, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. It analyzes the difficulty that the students meet in the listening comprehension and memory in the interpretation. Then it summarizes the training skills and gives the suggestion about the listening comprehension and memory in the interpretation.In addition to the introduction and conclusion, this thesis consists of five chapters. The introduction explains the main idea and the structure of my thesis.Chapter one introduces the basic concepts of interpretation. It introduces the definition and types of interpretation, the basic steps and features of interpretation, the interpreter qualities and major literature on Interpreting.Chapter two analyzes the course of the listening comprehension in the interpretation through the explanation and the analysis of the Effort Models put forward by Daniel Gile. It analyzes the comprehension in interpretation at four levels of speech perception, word, sentence and discourse based on the linguistic theory, then emphasized the characteristicsof listening comprehension in interpretation. Chapter three makes research into listening comprehension barriers in the view of linguistic knowledge, extra-linguistic knowledge and psychological factors of the interpreter in listening comprehension.Chapter four analyzes the memory process of recognition, retention and retrieval of information according to the classification of memories in the psychology. From the analysis of the course of the operating process of memory in interpretation, it emphasizes the close relationship between memory and comprehension.Chapter five emphasizes the teaching methods of the interpretation should differ from the translation according to the characteristics of the interpretation, while comparing the difference of the interpretation and the translation. It points out the importance of listening comprehension and memory training, then summarizes the training skills and gives the suggestion about the listening comprehension and memory in the interpretation.The conclusion makes brief review and summary of the thesis. The thesis makes research and analysis of the listening comprehension and memory in the interpretation by the theories, combining teaching practice and experience and gives the suggestion of the interpretation teaching.