An investigation on the effect of teaching interpretation skills in tourism field

This study aims at investigating the Effect of Teaching Interpretation Skills in Tourism Field in order to 1) find to what extent holding Interpretation course will influence general interpretation skills of translation students 2) To find to what extent holding Specialized Interpretation Course in Tourism field will influence translation students’ performance. To achieve these objectives three major steps were taken 1) Holding a course for teaching general skills of interpretation using practicing interpretation by Masoud Shrififar and Sima Ferdowsi 2) Holding a course for introducing the concepts and terminology of tourism field using English for international tourism by Peter Strutt 3) Holding a specialized interpretation course in tourism field. A pre-test is taken from all translation students to evaluate their knowledge and operation method at the beginning and one post-test at the end of holding the interpretation course and one at the end of the last course. The Terms of participating at this research is passing at least 30 basic units by translation students. The findings of the study indicated that there is %28 growth in the performance of the participants before the course and after the end of the course.

Keywords:

Interpretation , Specialized Tourism Concepts , Tourism , Translation