THE VALUE OF READING AND TRANSLATING/ INTERPRETING: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

Abstract

The article intends to give an overview of current and emerging approaches used in the productive activities of reading and interpreting/ translation. It deals with investigation of reading as comparatively easy, reliable and fast process for gaining competences helping students as future graduates to become capable of competing on the job market. Reading and translating/ interpreting have a high potential to fit students’ wants and needs and further push learning efficiencies. Reading as a classic technique is appreciated as an important part of students’ development to increase the efficiency on the one hand and to decrease the number of mistakes in comprehension and translation on the other hand. Based on the kind of text samples, establishment of the general effect of reading and translating/ interpreting is therefore evident. The variety of changes that we can observe in class depends on texts, their structure, style and initial purposes. More specifically the article focuses on the ways of its practical realization. Thus, students become familiar with the methodology of reading and translating/ interpreting and develop these procedures in accordance with national and international standards and practices. At the institutional level, explicit descriptions of the effective ways and the desired learning outcomes have been based theoretically and studied experimentally at the linguistic faculty of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute».