TEXT SELECTION IN TEACHING TECHNICAL TRANSLATION

Abstract

The paper deals with the key issues of text selection in teaching technical translation to university students. Theoretical analysis enables to reveal methodologically relevant requirements for the texts and their sources. The practical part of the study demonstrates a special computer program which provides the accurate and fast arrangement of textual materials in accord-ance with their complexity in relation to the number of terms or text volume. The results of the program approbation confirm its feasibility and benefits in technical text selection. The elaborated methods are universal and can be used in the selection process of any professionally oriented texts in translation training.

Keywords

• text selection
• teaching technical translation
• technical text
• requirements for sources
• text arrangement
• отбор текстов
• преподавание технического перевода
• технический текст
• требования к источникам
• распределение текстов