Developing Note-taking and Summary Writing as a Listening Test Method

Note-taking and Summary Writing reflects the true nature of listening comprehension in communication,represents a true and relatively overall picture of the college students' communicative language ability.It has high validity,acceptable reliability and positive washback effect,and thus is a promising alternative to Multiple Choice as a listening test method in some large-scale tests.

Analysis on the Relationship among Memorizing Ability, Note-taking, and Psychological Factors in Interpretation Teaching

Since China＇s reform and accession to the world trade organization （WTO）, the international labor division, cooperation, and communication of production have been a direction of the global productivity development. The expansion of the world trade organization and the growth of multinational corporations have promoted China＇s market economy to head for internationalization; the exchanges of all countries＇ science and technology, culture, and education have become increasingly frequent and beyond the borders very early, so opening-up has become a world trend. China is playing an important role in this historical process. In this situation, the importance of language translation is increasing day by day, and an unprecedented prosperous situation has especially appeared to the interpretation. In order to accord with this new historical situation, many colleges and universities have set up language translation program and have offered interpretation course. To promote the economic development of China and train more senior interpreters, the studies of interpretation teaching and the improvement of interpretation teaching quality have been particularly important. In this paper, the relationship among memory, note-taking, and psychological factors are analyzed.

On Note-taking and Memory in Consecutive Interpretation

This paper tries to explore the role of note-taking in consecutive interpretation and through the analysis of the complex relationship between memory and note-taking from the cognitive psychological perspective,the image of 'a necessary helper' for note-taking has been built.And results find that behind the competitive relationship,there is actually cooperation among comprehension,memory and note-taking.

A Preliminary Analysis on the Note-taking in English Interpretation

Interpretation is a very immediate translation practice.To be a qualified interpreter,you must have a good bilingual ability,rich knowledge as well as some relevant skills.The scene of interpretation is very complicated,so interpreters often can not successfully com plete the task of interpretation only by memory.They have to rely on the help of taking some notes.Therefore,note-taking is of essential importance in interpreting and it is very important in interpreting practice.This paper mainly make a brief summary of five kinds of note-taking symbols commonly used and illustrates each one by one.Besides,this paper puts forward practical training methods of note-taking.

The Skills of Note-taking in Consecutive Interpretation from the Perspective of Gile's Effort Models

This paper introduces the method of note-taking based on the Gile's Effort Models,exploring how tokeep the balance of memory and note-aking in consecutive interpreting.The paper also analyses some examples tofind an effective way to balance the memory and note-taking in consecutive interpreting,so as to help interpreters tobetter convey the meaning of speakers accurately and quickly with the help of interpreting notes,thereby improvingthe quality of interpreting.

The Effect of Note-taking on Listening Comprehension for Lower-Intermediate Level EFL Learners in China

This paper probes into the facilitative effects of note-taking on listening comprehension for lower-intermediate level EFL learners in China by carrying out empirical experiments. By strictly controlling other variants identified by previous studies, the current study conducts tests on objective questions and subjective summary writing for listening comprehension performances in a controlled environment. Analysis of data collected confirms that note-taking does facilitate listening comprehension, especially in the summary writing performances. English language proficiency is influential to the facilitative effects of note-taking on listening comprehension. Other variants such as the emotional status of the subject, the distribution of attention and note-taking strategies may exert complex influences on the effects of note-taking.

Quick Notes in Consecutive Interpreting

Note-taking plays an important role in consecutive interpretation. After discussing the significance of note-taking, this paper is aimed at explaining what to note in consecutive interpreting and recommending some principles for quick and efficient notes.