Note-Taking Proficiency in Interpreting Teaching: Putting the Note-Taking Fluency Scale to the Test

Note-taking skills are critical to consecutive interpreting. As an important construct of translation competence and essential skill interpreting performance, note-taking merits rigorous systematic investigations as well reliable valid assessment instruments procedures. In the present study, we aim further validate fluency scale developed by Zhou Dong (2019), focusing on four dimensions, coordination between listening note-taking, timing taking notes, nature use notes. We evaluated a group Master in Translation Interpreting (MTI) students majoring Chinese-Portuguese interpretation Macao. The was administered twice, at beginning end training program respectively. results corroborated development proficiency along with three cognitively less demanding i.e., notes while more “stagnant/attractor” aspect remained unchanged after several months' training. conclude paper outlining specific pedagogical implications tailor made for dimensions future