Interpretation Skill, Interpreter, Simultaneous Interpreting, Consecutive Interpreting, Modes of Interpretation.

Although interpretation is widely taught in Iraqi Universities in the translation department, there has been a dearth of studies on interpretation skills for fourth-year students, therefore, almost of professors in some Iraqi universities agreed on the existence of a clear weakness in the for fourth-year students in dealing with the texts, this is due to insufficient interpretation skills which possess during the study. The present study seeks to identify the skills required in the interpretation for fourth-year students in Iraqi universities by shedding light on teachers’ and experts' perspective in this field. The sample included 25 teachers and 25 experts in Translation science. Where they were prepared a questionnaire containing the skills required for undergraduate students with the definitions of those skills. This questionnaire consists of (11 skills) with an explanation of them. These skills were then included in a special table for presentation to the two groups (teachers and experts). It sorted the options in the search tool by extracting the number of people who selected from these options and the higher percentage was adopted for the selection (very suitable) and the lowest percentage was adopted for the other selects. Findings of the percentage showed variances among the interpreting skills, where it showed eight skills suitable for fourthyear students and three skills not suitable for them.