The internal laws that govern oral translation practice concerns the steps and the modes in realizing the transformation of one language into another. If the study of a foreign language is regarded as a process during which a person changes his/her habit of speaking a language, translation, especially oral translation, can be thought of as a means that tests and accelerates this process.

Some people think that oral translation practice consists of three steps as shown in the following diagram:

Others regard oral translation practice as a system project, the completion of which depends on four important components, which is represented in the following flow-chart:.

There are also people who take oral translation practice as follows:

In spite of their different divisions and the terms used, the above listed diagrams, to the author's mind, all well conform to the laws that dominate the practical bilingual behaviour in oral translation.

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