In order to examine the effects of simultaneous listening and speaking on comprehension and recall, nine trainee simultaneous interpreters were asked to shadow, listen to, and simultaneously interpret into English three French prose passages. Subsequent tests of comprehension and recall showed that higher scores were obtained in the listening condition than in simultaneous interpretation, which in turn yielded significantly higher scores than shadowing.
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