28.3632, Books: Effect of prosody awareness training on the quality of consecutive interpreting between English and Farsi: Yenkimaleki

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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:26
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Effect of prosody awareness training on the quality of consecutive interpreting between English and Farsi: Yenkimaleki

Title: Effect of prosody awareness training on the quality of
consecutive interpreting between English and Farsi 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/prosody-interpreting-studies-awareness-training-consecutive-interpreting 

Author: Mahmood Yenkimaleki

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932410 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

Consecutive interpreting allows two persons who do not understand each other’s
language, to communicate through a bilingual intermediary: the interpreter.
Typically, interpreters are native speakers of one language but not the other.
The extent to which student interpreters’ performance is improved by making
them aware of prosodic differences (word and sentence stress) between native
and foreign language, was investigated for Iranian participants with Farsi as
the native language and English as the foreign language. Effects were tested
both in recto (from foreign English into native Farsi) and in verso
interpreting (from Farsi into English). Interpreting quality was judged by
experts on ten rating scales, relating to accuracy of interpreting as well as
to intelligibility and pleasantness of the delivery. Objective correlates of
the subjective ratings (e.g. counts of errors and hesitations, acoustic
fluency measures) were established. Prosody training yielded better
interpreting quality on all rating scales in recto interpreting, especially on
fluency. In verso interpreting the overall gain was smaller, and with a
trade-off between interpreting accuracy and fluency. In follow-up experiments
better word recognition and comprehension of the English input was found.
Explicit prosody training had a greater benefit than implicit prosody
training. Prosody awareness training made a smaller contribution than training
segmental differences between English and Farsi, i.e., the pronunciation of
vowels and consonants. This dissertation will be of interest to experts on
translation and interpreting studies, as well as to curriculum designers and
developers of teaching materials in the field of interpreting.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): Dari (prs)
                     English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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