Investigating the implications of sight translation training for simultaneous interpreting performance

To achieve this aim, the research recruited student participants from MA Interpreting at the Queen’s University Belfast and divided them into an experimental group and a control group, with the experimental group receiving the author’s intervention, that is, an ST training course.

Both groups completed a pre-test (administered before the ST training course) and post-test (conducted after the ST training course), with each test containing a questionnaire survey, three ST tasks and three SI tasks representing three text complexity levels. There were mainly two research findings. Firstly, following the ST training course, the experimental group made greater improvement in SI performance than the control group at each text complexity level.