TEACHING TRANSLATION IN KAZAKHSTAN: PURPOSES AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

Translation Studies is one of the most popular specialties in the Republic of Kazakhstan due to multilingual nature of the Kazakhstan community. The first reason for its popularity is related to the specific internal situation based both on Soviet heritage and contemporary language policy; the peculiarities of intercultural communication in Kazakhstan is also a topical problem related to translator training. The second reason is rooted in such peculiarities of Kazakhstan foreign policy as transparency and cooperation that is why the role of translation has increased dramatically since the beginning of XXI century. So the analysis of translator training is considered to be very important in order to understand strong and weak points of every special discipline. Feedback such as a brief survey of students’ opinions helps us in establishing the relationship between practical application of translator training and content of the curriculum. Results of such survey are also presented in the article. One of the evident tendencies represented here is the increasing popularity of Machine Translation, including CAT techniques, among the proposed items. It seems reasonable because of the increasing importance of special software designed for translation.  It is also stated in the article that the main purpose of translator training is to provide our students a strong theoretical background as a foundation for critical analysis of possible ways of solving translation problems.