注意理论及其对高校英语专业口译教学的启示

Attention Theory and Its Implications for College Interpreting Teaching

口译是一项高级认知活动,认知心理学等认知科学能对口译教学产生重要的指导作用。论文以跨学科的视野,从认知心理学中的注意理论角度对选择性注意与口译、分配性注意与口译、注意与口译记忆和注意与口译技能的关系进行了分析,揭示了注意在口译中的重要作用。接着论文探讨了口译教学可以从注意理论中获得的若干启示,即选择恰当的口译教学材料、选择恰当的教学方式和进行科学的注意训练等。

Interpreting is an advanced cognitive activity. Cognitive science, such as cognitive psychology, can exert a verysignificant effect on interpreting teaching. The relationship between selective attention and interpreting, divided attention andinterpreting, attention and interpreting memory and attention and interpreting skills are analyzed from the perspective of attentiontheory in cognitive psychology in the paper, which reveal a very significant influence of attention on interpreting. Then theimplications for interpreting teaching based on attention theory are revealed, that is, choosing appropriate interpreting teachingmaterials, choosing appropriate interpreting teaching approaches, and conducting scientific attention practice, etc.