On trainee interpreters' English listening comprehension barriers : the case of local university undergraduate translation majors in China
Author
Source
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation
Issue
Vol. 3, Issue 2 (29 Feb. 2020), pp.16-31, 16 p.
Publisher
Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development
Publication Date
2020-02-29
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
English Language and Literature
Abstract EN
Listening is the first step of interpretation, and it determines whether an interpreter can successfully grasp information received in the source utterance and fulfill the interpreting task.
Being an important part of interpreting process, it is also the bottleneck of many trainee interpreters.
For the majority of Chinese students majoring in English or translation, it is a problem needing to be addressed urgently.
The present study aims at finding the trainees' barriers for listening comprehension in English to Chinese interpretation.
A questionnaire study was conducted on 164 trainee interpreters.
The results and the following informal interviews indicate that some factors exert negative effects on the trainees' listening and information receiving, including linguistic barriers and non-linguistic ones.
The linguistic barriers revealed from the data are perception of sounds, lexical segmentation, sentence structure recognition etc.
The Non-linguistic barriers include lack of background knowledge, logic organization of the information, speaker's accent, unfamiliar vocabularies, unbalanced effort coordination and psychological stress, etc.
Based on the theoretical and pedagogic analysis of students' problems, some teaching and training strategies are suggested to cope with the problems.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lingzhu, Ji. 2020. On trainee interpreters' English listening comprehension barriers : the case of local university undergraduate translation majors in China. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation،Vol. 3, no. 2, pp.16-31.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498278
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lingzhu, Ji. On trainee interpreters' English listening comprehension barriers : the case of local university undergraduate translation majors in China. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation Vol. 3, no. 2 (2020), pp.16-31.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498278
American Medical Association (AMA)
Lingzhu, Ji. On trainee interpreters' English listening comprehension barriers : the case of local university undergraduate translation majors in China. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation. 2020. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp.16-31.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498278
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 31
Record ID
BIM-1498278