The role of cueing stimulus during retrospection as perceived by simultaneous interpreters
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RP.2021.004Keywords
retrospection, simultaneous interpreting, process research, cueing stimuli, survey researchAbstract
The present article aims to investigate simultaneous interpreting trainees’ perception of the cueing stimuli used in research adopting the method of retrospection. The survey research whose results are described in this article is a part of the experimental study (Gumul 2020a) oriented at testing the impact of two types of cues stimulating the interpreters’ memory during retrospection (transcript of the source text and recording of the target text) on the informativeness and accuracy of the reports as well as the verbosity of the participants. The present article reports in more detail on the part of the study in which the participants were administered a questionnaire testing their perception of the cueing stimuli. The survey focused on the difficulty level of the recall, the usefulness of the cueing stimuli, and the factors facilitating retrospection. The participants were also asked to what extent they perceived a given cueing stimulus as distorting their actual memories. The results of the survey show slightly more disparity between the two types of cueing stimuli than the measurable parameters of informativeness, accuracy, and verbosity. Both groups of participants (group A exposed to the transcription of the source text and group B exposed to the recording of the target text) show slight preference for transcription as a cueing stimulus. Additional comments provided by two participants from experimental group B imply that this finding could possibly be interpreted in the context of the interpreters’ sensory preference for information processing. For those with visual dominance transcription could be more effective, while those displaying auditory dominance could possibly benefit more from the recording.
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