Teaching voice management as an extra-linguistic competence for the interpretation trainee : pitch, pace, pauses

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This study aims to develop the voice in interpreting training as an extra-linguistic competence that accompanies the linguistic part of the delivery by answering to what extent does it impact the interpretation performance quality.

The empirical study tested and trained a group of interpreting students and analyzed their results in an attempt to shed light on the most important keys to acquire this competence and integrate it as a didactic subject in their curriculum or post-academic training.

With this in mind, the study scrutinizes three features which are the pitch, the pace, and the pauses that all together funnel into the same target to improve the rendition.

At the end, Participants acquired new phonation behaviors and a certain professional command of their voice with a higher level of awareness about it.