학부 통역교육

Undergraduate Training of Interpretation - with Special Emphasis on English-into-Korean Consecutive Interpretation Speech Texts

This paper has explored the content analysis of consecutive interpretation performances by undergraduate interpretation majors moving from English into Korean. Two types of texts were used for this study, a formal speech text (FST) and an informal speech text (IST) with the aim of which type would be more appropriate for the training of undergraduate students. According to the data, the rate of interpretation disruption stood at 41% for FST, and 26% for IST, suggesting that the IST text was handled more comfortably than the FST text. The data showed omissions and delays, in the process of handling relatively lengthy structures, such as compound and complex sentence types. On the basis of the results and findings of this study, the IST text type may be more desirable for the training of English-into-Korean consecutive interpretation. Therefore, a text, which involves more common short sentences, free from technical terms and lengthy structures, is considered to streamline the efficiency of consecutive interpretation education.