Failure Sequences In Simultaneous Interpreting:

When student interpreters start to learn and practice simultaneous interpreting,one of the biggest problems is the ineffective management of Efforts.As a result,failure sequences can be observed in their rendition.On this account,this report focuses on common failure sequences and the major problems in Effort management.This report adopts Gile's Effort Model to analyze the interpreting tasks during the Pre-Conference Event for 2019 United Nations Civil Society Conference in Chengdu,Sichuan.Two interpreting tasks,namely the interpreting for Ms.Ran,vice chairman of the standing committee of Red Cross Society of Sichuan Province and Mr.Ma,member of Sustainable Development Goals Impact Steering Committee of UNDP,are analyzed in this report.As source-language texts involve great amount of extralinguistic knowledge,figures,proper nouns,enumerations and other common difficulties in interpreting,this report discusses the importance of processing capacity allocation and Effort management in simultaneous interpreting.Based on the Effort Model for simultaneous interpreting developed by Gile,failure sequences are classified into four categories.This report analyzes failure sequences under each category,using the transcript of source-language speech and on-site interpreting.This report discovers that failure sequences due to all three core Efforts occur even without external interference.However,lack of Coordination Effort is the biggest problem for a student interpreter.Besides problem triggers,the interpreter's decisions can also cause failures.Through this report,this author better understands the cause and process of failures in simultaneous interpreting,and the analysis can also serve as a future reference to further improve student interpreters' performance.