The urgency of considering “false friends of a translator” for construction specialists

Abstract

Construction employees are required to have good knowledge of foreign language professional terms. The survey of higher school students revealed the fact of their being reluctant to the issues of good knowledge of terminology and safety in future professional activities. They should be able to cope with homonyms that may cause confusion. Therefore, the research considers ‘false friends of a translator’ taking account of their similarities or differences in the pronunciation, meaning and spelling in English and Russian. To realize this aim the authors empirically surveyed two groups of a higher school final-year students to contribute to their language development through good knowledge of terms. The research was conducted on the base of comparison, observation and empirical methods and the teaching-practicing-controlling approach. The results obtained show that proper educating the future specialists to the use of the lexical units under consideration correctly can improve their professional growth and safety. The results can be used in language teaching practice, in making dictionaries for special purposes, as well as for making some possible contribution to terminology science.

Factors of formation of foreign language communicative competence of future construction specialists through overcoming the language barrier

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“…Therefore, the key purpose of the research is to deal with the problem of overcoming the language barrier for vocationally oriented foreign language teaching due to appropriate teaching factors, ways and techniques. The topicality of overcoming the language barrier are underlined by such scientists as [1,2,3,4,5,6]. The research was based on the method of observing, questioning, and surveying and the communicative method.…”

Some approaches to translation of professional terms abbreviation in materials science

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