IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education

Abstract

Nowadays the
international situation and wide political, social and cultural relations
enhance the importance of interpreting from one language into another. The role
of professionals in interpreting is also increasing. It causes the necessity of
special training and development of interpreters at education institutions of
different levels. Training interpreters can be realized from various didactic
and methodological standpoints. To find the most effective way of training
interpreters the previous practical experience of teaching and theoretical
research in the field of interpreters’ training methodology should be analyzed.

The topicality of the
paper is explained not only by the increased interest in interpreting as a
professional activity but also by a modern view on interpreting as a part of
mediation that is considered by European researchers as a special language
activity along with reading, speaking, writing and listening. As all language
activities can be taught from the point of different lingo didactic approaches,
consequently, training interpreting can also be studied as a realization of
lingo didactic views and theories known in educational environment.

The purpose of this
paper is to analyze different lingo didactic approaches to teaching foreign
languages and their use in training interpreters practice; generalize the ideas
of the previous studies and suggest the ways how to  implement these theories into the modern
practice of training interpreters-to-be more effectively; concentrate on the
issues of training interpreters in a specific setting; present some examples
from the practice of teaching and training interpreters at Peoples’ Friendship
University of Russia (RUDN University).