Objectives:

• To uncover the interpreting processes of 14 randomly selected undergraduate learners of interpreting courses at certain learning stages to check whether the teacher’s instructions have achieved the intended outcomes listed in the syllabi of the courses.
• To analyze the developing stages of necessary consecutive interpreting strategies and skills of the students, which will form the basis for the instructor to decide whether remedial lessons are needed for certain strategies or skills before more complex ones can be taught.
• To reveal the thinking patterns of both strong and weak learners in interpreting so that the instructor can devise suitable activities to promote the right ways of thinking while discouraging the wrong ones.
• To invite some professional interpreters to do some of the same exercises as students have done and to use the retrospective thinking-aloud method to elicit their interpreting processes.

Remarks:

Outcomes & Deliverables:

• Li, D., & Wang, W.W. (2011). Thinking-aloud protocols and interpreting studies. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 6, 900-910.