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The research aims to explore how task complexity and individual traits affect novice interpreters' performance in consecutive interpreting.

April 19, 2026Acta PsychologicaOpen Access

The effects of task complexity and individual differences in novice interpreters' consecutive interpreting performance

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The research aims to explore how task complexity and individual traits affect novice interpreters' performance in consecutive interpreting.
Analyzed 39 novice interpreters performing three consecutive interpreting tasks with varying complexity.
Assessed performance based on accuracy, fluency, and target-language quality.
Investigated individual differences including L2 proficiency, anxiety, and working memory in relation to task performance.
Under high task complexity, both accuracy and fluency declined significantly while output quality remained stable.
Higher L2 proficiency was linked to improved accuracy and language quality.
Anxiety negatively impacted fluency but showed reduced effects under the greatest cognitive load.

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Finds that task complexity interacts with individual traits to influence novice interpreters' performance, suggesting implications for training.

Jiang et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Finds that task complexity interacts with individual traits to influence novice interpreters' performance, suggesting implications for training.