ArticleAuthors: Nguyen, Ninh Bac (2016)
How to assess interpreting quality in conferences remains a question not yet satisfactorily answered. When disputes arise upon interpreters’ performance in conferences, the related parties do not have a consistent ground to base their assessment on. This research, completed under the sponsorship of the University of Languages and International Studies (ULIS, VNU) in the VNU research grant No QG.15.35 “Models for English-Vietnamese translation assessment”, has piloted Kurz’s model in 1989 with eight criteria in assessing simultaneous interpreting quality in three conferences. The findings show that this model allows comprehensive, accurate and objective assessment of interpreting quali... 
