Content Peculiarities of Master’s Professional Foreign Language Training in Translation Studies and Interpretation at the Universities of Slovakia

• Authors: Natalia Shumeiko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the content analysis of peculiarities of Master’s professional foreign language training in Translation Studies and Interpretation at the universities of Slovakia. In the context of globalization and integration processes the study of European countries’ experience, in particular, of the Slovak Republic has been actualized. The possibility of implementing progressive ideas of Slovak experience in university level foreign language training of specialists in humanities has been pointed out. The structure and content of the Master’s curricula in Translation Studies and Interpretation have been analyzed. The communicative and intercultural approaches have been defined as the principle approaches of training. It has been noted that university level foreign language training of future specialists in humanities contributes to the forming of students’ linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge. It has been indicated that students acquire conceptual knowledge of the problem on the coexistence of different cultures in socio-cultural space. The general positive characteristics of Master’s professional foreign language training have been defined.

Keywords

EN

university; Slovakia; training content; culture; foreign language; intercultural approach

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 37-42

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-10-24

Contributors

author

Natalia Shumeiko

• Kyiv National Linguistic University, , Address: 73 Velyka Vasylkivska St., Kyiv, 03680,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2016-0031