Abstract: Within the context of the debate between the serial view and the parallel view，the present study investigates the time course of language reformulation in the process of interpreting.We conducted a selfpaced reading experiment among student interpreters to compare the reading process of Chinese under two conditions: reading for repetition and reading for interpreting.In both reading processes, no facilitation of Chinese transliterated words but wrapup effect occurred, which indicates that the two comprehension processes are not essentially different.The result suggests that for the unbalanced ChineseEnglish bilinguals, source language comprehension and language reformulation may not proceed in a parallel but a serial fashion in ChineseEnglish consecutive interpreting.