Speech errors in consecutive interpreting: Effects of language proficiency, working memory, and anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Interpreting can be seen as a form of language production, where interpreters extract conceptual information from the source language and express it in the target language. Hence, like language production, interpreting contains speech errors at various (e.g., conceptual, syntactic, lexical and phonological) levels. The current study delved into the impact of language proficiency, working memory, and anxiety on the occurrence of speech errors across these linguistic strata during consecutive interpreting from English (a second language) into Chinese (a first language) by student interpreters. We showed that speech errors in general decreased as a function of the interpreter's proficiency in the source (second) language and increased as a function of the interpreter's anxiety. Conceptual err

SUBMITTER: Zhao N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10584118 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature