Consecutive Interpreting is a practical course aimed at developing proficiency in the consecutive mode of interpreting. Before students are initiated into the complex cognitive activity of consecutive interpreting proper, use is made of a preparatory phase of listening and memory exercises such as prediction, comprehension, condensation, abstracting, summarizing, reduction, paraphrase, sight interpreting, public speaking skills, etc. The preparatory exercises are designed to develop in students an advanced level of oral-aural communicative competence in both working languages through the skills of active listening and proper analysis, comprehension, retention and repetition of oral-aural and written messages monolingually and bilingually in various communicative situations in part and/or in full. The preparatory exercises are also aimed at providing students with the skills and strategies necessary to cope with time constraints, the psychological pressure of working under divided attention, heavy cognitive load and limited resources characteristic of interpreting. Students are then trained on sentence-by-sentence consecutive or consecutive without notes, note-taking techniques and finally the techniques of consecutive interpreting proper using authentic video and audio recordings on a variety of topics. The course should pave the way for students to take Simultaneous Interpreting in the second semester.

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