El análisis de errores y su aplicación a la interpretación simultánea

Simultaneous interpreting is a special mode of language production, characterised mainly by the interpreter’s need to follow a speech planning process which is not his or her own but that of the speaker, as well as the simultaneous and parallel management of different cognitive activities: listening, conceptualisation, memorisation and production. Precisely because of these characteristics, its evaluation is extremely complex. The aim of this article is to present error analysis as a useful didactic tool for assessing the performance of trainee interpreters in order to inform and guide the teacher’s didactic approach. To this end, the literature on error analysis in interpreting and research results will be reviewed, with specific attention to the Spanish-Italian language pair and with examples of the main errors made by trainee interpreters in the SpanishItalian combination.