THE FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF THE STUDENTS – FUTURE TRANSLATORS IN THE SPHERE OF SPECIAL TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION USING THE EDUCATIONAL FRENCH-RUSSIAN AUTOMOBILE THESAURUS

The article covers special aspects of thesaurus methods of forming of professional competence of the students-linguists – future translators in the sphere of special technical communication in the field of machine engineering.

The article addresses the issue of relevancy of development of new effective methods of training of linguists-translators to a competent professional translation of technical texts from French into Russian, and vice versa. For comparison the author analyses the existing methods of training to technical texts translation of such authors as Yu.V. Sapozhnikov, N.V. Vladimova, D.A. Alferova, and M. Philipenko; none of these techniques today does not have the most optimal method of forming of competence of future translators in technical sphere.

The author describes her own thesaurus technique of forming professional competence of the students – future translators in the sphere of special technical communication the main objective of which is the forming, development and consolidation of students’ skills of technical written translation from French into Russian and vice versa, and the ability to overcome typical lexico-grammatic and genre-stylistic translation difficulties. The author describes her own French-Russian automobile thesaurus developed on the basis of analysis of French technical texts aimed at the optimization of the process of training to translation activity and teaching students to work with technical terms.

Besides that, the author describes the special exercises system consisting of three sections, which helps the students to develop competence necessary for a professional translator.