Consecutive interpreting  (CI )  requires   a lot of parallel  cognitive  and affective processes, which  are  challenging  for the interpreter who has to deal with them concurrently .  This study focuses on the problems trainee interpreters encountered in their CI sessions. An analysis of the strategies they used to weigh whether they have been successful in completing their task is also given. The sample of the study consists of 50 senior students of Translation enrolled in CI course (English-Arabic) in the Fall Semester 2018/2019 at the Translation Department at Yarmouk University, Jordan. The Source Text (ST), which was divided into one-minute period for each time, was given to students for interpretation and then the Target Text (TT) was recorded. Most of the challenges encountered by trainee-interpreters were linguistic problems, memory problems, note-taking and reproducing the ST into the TL. It is imperative therefore that interpreter training should be as effective as possible and interpreters should develop a series of skills and strategies such as chunking and joining, shadowing, anticipating, listening and recalling and paraphrasing that can be used to solve the problems encountered.  

Title

Ekrema Shehab

Publisher

Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies,

Publisher Country

Iran

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

5

Year

2020

Pages

85-102