Chinese/English Bilingual Court Interpreting: Exploring and Investigating Students’ Learning Outcomes and Behavioral Regulations

This book explores and investigates students’ skill acquisition and learning progress in Court Interpreting. Focusing on the language combination of Mandarin Chinese and English, this research project has placed its emphases on two aspects: error analysis in court interpreting renditions and learners’ behavioral regulations in learning task engagement. With the identified frequently-occurred errors, two error taxonomies (into the two designated languages) are established. In addition, the examination of the students’ learning task engagement has shown when the students associated their learning in Court Interpreting with their improvement in language competence, many have become more intrinsically motivated in their learning of interpreting skills.<翰蘆圖書出版社>

Karen Chung-chien Chang received her Master’s degree in Translation & Interpretation from Monterey Institute of International Studies and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, with the concentration on Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Composition. Currently, Dr. Chang is an associate professor at the FLAL Department in National Taipei University. Her research interests include translation/interpretation studies, EFL writing, learner autonomy, rhetoric, and ESP course design and implementation.