VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES BA THESIS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT SITUATION OF USING SHORT-TERM MEMORY IN ENGLISH - VIETNAMESE CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING OF THE THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE KHẢO SÁT THỰC TRẠNG SỬ DỤNG TRÍ NHỚ NGẮN HẠN TRONG PHIÊN DỊCH NỐI TIẾP ANH - VIỆT CỦA SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ BA NGÀNH NGÔN NGỮ ANH TẠI HỌC VIỆN NÔNG NGHIỆP VIỆT NAM Student : HOANG THI THUY LINH Student code : 621248 Major : ENGLISH Supervisor : M.A NGUYEN THI HUONG Hanoi – 2021 i CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT SITUATION OF USING SHORT-TERM MEMORY IN ENGLISH - VIETNAMESE CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING OF THE THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor in English Language. Except where the reference is indicated, no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the text of the thesis. Hanoi, 2021 Linh Hoang Thi Thuy Linh Approved by SUPERVISOR (Signature and full name) Date:…………………… ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY.................................................................i TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................................ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................................iv ABSTRACT......................................................................................................... v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS............................................................................ vi LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................vii LIST OF FIGURES ..........................................................................................vii PART 1: INTRODUCTION.............................................................................. 1 1. RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY.................................................................. 1 2. AIMS AND OJECTIVES OF THE STUDY.................................................... 2 2.1 Aims................................................................................................................ 2 2.2 Objectives....................................................................................................... 3 3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS............................................................................... 3 4. SCOPE OF THE STUDY ................................................................................. 3 5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY................................................................. 4 6. DESIGN OF THE STUDY............................................................................... 5 PART 2: DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 7 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW.......................................................... 7 1.1 REVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDIES (AT HOME/ABROAD)..................... 7 1.1.1. Vietnamese Research ................................................................................ 7 1.1.2. Foreign Research..................................................................................... 10 1.2 REVIEW OF THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ....................................... 11 1.2.1. Short-term memory (STM).................................................................... 11 1.2.2. Consecutive interpreting ........................................................................ 14 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY................................................................... 21 2.1. RESEARCH GOVERNING ORIENTATION............................................ 21 2.1.1. Research questions.................................................................................. 21