BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINES DURING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems of modern vocational education. An example of such education is the system of training professional translators and interpreters. The author raises the issue of using the general principles of teaching professional disciplines in the training of translators and interpreters, which contribute to the formation of the competence of the translator and interpreter. The paper analyzes ways to optimally organize the training of translators and interpreters, based on current theoretical and practical principles. The article’s main topic is the structural and functional analysis of key types of speech activity: listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the training of translators/interpreters during the professional discipline “Communicative Strategies”. The article’s emphasis is placed on the basic methodological principles of the modern process of training future translators. Translator training takes many forms. Translator training is associated with the skills needed to achieve translation competence. Translator education, on the other hand, recognizes the need for students to acquire key types of speech activity: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Theoretical research and practical verification of efficient pedagogical means, forms, and methods facilitating the formation of the future translators’ professional competence within the system of university training confirm the urgent demand for the determination and grounding of a corresponding set of curricular and constituents of their professional speech training. Students’ academic success, while being trained in English much depends on their language awareness, which is to be fostered. Therefore, we might assume that teaching (future translators) English plays a significant role in their professional training. Teaching tools used skillfully by university instructors facilitate students’ development in terms of their proficiency.