A Comparative Assessment of Listening Span and Self-Efficacy in Simultaneous Interpreting Training

  1. Naim, Saida Anssari 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
Sendebar: Revista de la Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación

ISSN: 1130-5509

Año de publicación: 2021

Número: 32

Páginas: 167-176

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.30827/SENDEBAR.V32.16868 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Sendebar: Revista de la Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación

Resumen

This study compares the results obtained from a group of interpreting trainees in an adapted listening span test (cognitive dimension), with those obtained from this same group in two self-efficacy tests (personality dimension). The objective is to assess the predictive value of these tests with respect to the scores obtained by the subjects in a simultaneous interpreting test. The analysis of data leads us to the conclusion that, at least in an initial training phase in simultaneous interpreting, only the cognitive factors (measured here in terms of listening span) show a significant and positive predictive capacity of the quality in simultaneous interpreting. In this regard, personality factors (measured here in terms of self-efficacy) offer results contradictory to the expectations or no significant correlation values.

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Funding for this work was provided by the Research Project FFI2017-84951-P, financially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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