THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COURSE “THE BASICS OF TRANSLATION AND METHODS OF TEACHING TRANSLATION”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of methods of teaching translation as a professional subject for university students at the early stage of studies. The development of the programme of this educational discipline requires a systemic approach encompassing the authoritative scholarly and methodological sources analysis, the choice of prominent scholars’ key principles and strategies in the sphere of translation/interpreting studies with the aim of forming the professional competence of a translator/interpreter. The process of teaching the studied discipline is viewed in two planes: as a general theoretical and as a methodological course, which predetermines the orientation, on the one hand, on already described in scholarly literature widespread theoretical notions, typological classifications and systems of training interpreters and translators, and, on the other hand, on complexes of receptive and productive training exercises for teaching interpreters/translators. The studies effectiveness depends on the optimal proportion of theoretical and didactic material. The differentiating approach to the formation and fixation of oral and written translation skills presupposes using study materials from adjacent spheres of knowledge according to the level of the students’ educational competence.