A Reflective Report On The Simulated English-chinese Ci Of “Dialogue(Oct.21, 2015)”

Dialogue is an English TV panel discussion program on CCTV News Channel. The targeted episode in this report was broadcast on October 21, 2015 when President Xi was visiting UK. The host and two guests discussed the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and UK under such background. The author conducted a simulated consecutive interpreting practice on this episode and made a self-reflective evaluation on the basis of the transcript.Through analyzing merits and demerits in the transcript, the author categorizes major problems in the simulation process. After analyzing the causes of problems, corresponding strategies are proposed for the sake of improving interpreting quality. To some extent, the author sincerely hopes this thesis can throw light on the training for panel discussion interpretation.This thesis consists of three parts. The first part is an introduction to the simulated consecutive practice, including description of task background, preparation before interpreting and practice process. The second part evaluates interpreting quality with citing typical examples from the transcript. This part at first introduces quality evaluation criteria used in the process of evaluation; then deficiencies in the transcript are categorized into three aspects: misinterpreting, information loss and deficiencies in fluency; and at last corresponding reasons are analyzed, including problems of listening, poor note-taking skills, and narrow range of knowledge. The third part puts up with three strategies on improving interpreting quality on the basis of the previous chapter, including training of listening and retrieving ability, note-taking training and knowledge accumulation.