Social demand for highly-qualified technical translators raises the problem of their proper professional training in compliance with contemporary educational requirements focused on competence approach. Based on the recent studies the article defines translation competence as future translators’ ability to perform mediating function within cross-cultural written communication in a particular field whose efficiency depends on the level of reading and writing bilingual communicative and translation skills, the amount of acquired linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge as well as translator’s personal features and social skills. The translation competence’s components – bilingual, extra-linguistic, operational, text typological, information and technological, learning strategic and personal – are substantiated and analysed in detail. It is pointed out that they are formed in an integrated way throughout all the stages of future technical translators’ professional training. Developing the appropriate system of exercises as a prospect of further research is identified.

технічні перекладачі

знання

уміння

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translation competence

technical translators

knowledge

skills

sub-skills