Students' attitudes towards virtual learning in consecutive interpreting

Abstract EN

This paper sheds light on the students' attitudes about Visual Learning (VL) during online Consecutive Interpreting (CI) courses and to what extent this type of education is important to influence the skills required in performing consecutive interpreting.

This type of oral communication demands good skills in order to receive the source message comprehensibly form the speaker and render it accurately and efficiently in the Second Language(SL).

CI is initiated when the interpreter receives the Source Message( SM) from the speaker and renders it within a specific period of time into Target Message (TM) to the listener.

This paper shows how the VL influences the students' skills required when they interpret consecutively.

Forty students from Department of Translation/ College of Arts/ University of Tikrit have been selected as respondents to see if the VL has affected their performance in CI during a distance learning course due to COV-19 pandemic instructions.

Ten-items questionnaire has been distributed to the students after studying an online course in CI to see their attitudes towards this course and to what extent their learning influenced by technological apps.