Exploring Students' Attitudes towards Teaching Methods of Consecutive Interpreting

This paper investigates students' attitudes towards the teaching methods of consecutive interpreting. This mode of interpreting requires systematic teaching methods to show students the significant aspects needed in improving their performance. The first problem of this study is that most of translation departments ignore the theorization about consecutive interpreting. The second one is that there is no systematic teaching method for this challenging mode. This paper hypothesizes that the students prefer to learn consecutive interpreting due to clear teaching method. 15 closeitem questionnaire will be distributed to seventy students from Department of translation/ College of Arts/ University of Tikrit whom participate as subjects to elicit their attitudes towards the current teaching methods. Their selections will be analyzed statistically.