A Study Of The Relationship Between Information Processing By Student Simultaneous Interpreters And The Quality Of Their Output For Technical Speeches

This thesis explores,through theoretical and observational studies,the relationship between information processing by student simultaneous interpreters and the quality of their output for technical speeches made in Chinese.The purpose of this thesis is to identify the patterns and problems of information processing by student interpreters and to propose ways to help enhance their performance.The thesis starts with Daniel Gile's Effort Model theory,the Skopos theory and Gile's minimum fidelity principle to demonstrate the necessity and basic principles of selecting and omitting information in dealing with technical speeches without a pre-written script,and goes to classify omission of information into three categories-weakening,reduction and deletion.The theoretical analysis is followed by an observational study of the performance of six student interpreters with the aim of identifying their patterns and problems in information processing.Through quantitative and qualitative analysis,a conclusion is reached.The result shows that the students tend to be inexperienced and prudent in terms of voluntary omission,and their output quality mainly differs in their ability to control errors of omission.The root cause lies in the students' ad hoc knowledge acquisition,where they only focused on the accumulation of linguistic knowledge but neglected extra-linguistic knowledge.Finally,the thesis is concluded by suggesting that student interpreters should place importance on extra-linguistic knowledge during conference preparation,learn to capitalize on their working memory more frequently,enhance self-monitoring during interpretation,and continue to work on their ear-voice span.