Note-Taking is said to be helpful in undertaking interpreting task, particularly in consecutiveudinterpreting. As research found out, note-taking was proved to be ‘a necessary helper’ in consecutiveudinterpretation (Meifang, 2012). In informal research in two interpreting classes it was found out that for majorityudof the students note-taking was helpful. However, in consecutive interpreting practice some students found that itudwas distracting and made the interpreting task even more difficult because they had to do two tasks at the sameudtime, i.e. listening to the speech to be interpreted and thinking about what to write. In addition, they also claimedudthat they had difficulties in using their notes for accomplishing the interpreting task. More practices were thenudgiven on how to take notes during the interpreting task. The factor which students claimed to be intimidating wasudalso eliminated. This paper will present how the note-taking practice works in the interpreting classes.udKeywords: note-taking, interpreting
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