MEMORY: THE CORE OF INTERPRETER'S ‘PERSONAL’ COMPETENCE
The current article is dedicated to the didactical aspects of translation and interpretation studies, namely, some questions of translation and interpretation didactics as a special area of pedagogical science and a part of translation theory. In this article we take a close look at one of the main professional competencies of an interpreter which is a ‘personal’ competence. We also pay special attention to its acquisition. The article describes the structure of memory and the main mechanisms of its work and proposes a set of exercises aimed at training its various types, such as working memory, short-term and long-term memory. It should be noted that flexible and prodigious memory is one of the main characteristics of an interpreter’s ‘personal’ competence.