Mnemonics for Generation Z in Translation Training (Based on English and Chinese)
https://doi.org/10.26907/2658-3321.2024.7.1.7-18
Keywords:
teaching translation, mnemonics, generation Z, translation skills, memoryAbstract
The article is devoted to the problems of the initial stage of teaching translation to students learning English and Chinese. Despite the fruitful history of the development of translation teaching methodology, there is no competence-based manual developed for this pair of languages. This is the relevance of this study. The authors rely on the methods of teaching interpreting by I.S. Alekseeva for German and by a group of MSU scientists M.V. Verbitskaya, T.N. Belyaeva and E.S. Bystritskaya for English. The goal of the initial stage is to train students to fix and memorise as much and as complete a volume of information as possible for its further reproduction, to form the skill of perception and reproduction of precision vocabulary, to expand and order the working memory of the future professional interpreter. Having studied the peculiarities of the modern generation Z, the authors have made an attempt to develop such mnemonics exercises that systematise the knowledge of both the first and second foreign languages, as well as introduce new language material to study in the course of expanding working memory.
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