TABLE OF CONTENTS
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	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 
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	2.1.2. Research types:  ........................................................................................  21
	2.2. RESEARCH METHODS  .............................................................................  22
	2.1.1. Quantitative research methods  ..............................................................  22
	2.1.2. Qualitative research methods ................................................................  23
	2.1.3. Data analysis method  ..............................................................................  23
	2.3. RESEARCH SETTING/CONTEXT  ...........................................................  24
	2.4. DATA COLLECTION  .................................................................................  24
	2.4.1. Data collecting instruments  ....................................................................  24
	2.4.2. Data collecting procedures  .....................................................................  26
	2.5. SUMMARY  .................................................................................................  27
	CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION  .............................................  28
	3.1. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION  .................................................................  28
	3.1.1 The student’s personal information  .......................................................  28
	3.1.2 The current situation and awareness of short-term in English to 
	Vietnamese consecutive interpreting  ...............................................................  31
	3.1.3 The difficulties in practicing short-term memory  .................................  37
	3.1.4 The student’s practice to improve short-term memory  .......................  39
	3.2. SUMMARY  .................................................................................................  45
	PART 3: CONCLUSION .................................................................................  46
	1. RECAPITULATION  ......................................................................................  46
	2. CONCLUDING REMARKS  ..........................................................................  47
	3. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY  ....................................................................  50
	4. RECOMMENDATIONS/SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY  .........  50
	REFERENCES  ....................................................................................................  51
	APPENDIX 1  ......................................................................................................  54
	APPENDIX 2  ......................................................................................................  58
	APPENDIX 3  ......................................................................................................  59