Basic Components of Professional Communicative Competence formed during the Opening Stage at Linguistic Universities
The article discusses approaches to shaping professional communicative competence that is viewed as a major integral part of translation competence and encompasses a set of complex universal profession-oriented skills that are to be equally developed both in the foreign language and the mother tongue. At the opening stage professional communicative competence is focused on two basic skills. These are interpretation of the meaning of the source utterance and its adequate understanding resulting in the overall comprehension of the intended meaning by a native speaker. The latter makes it possible for the interpreter to introduce changes into the target utterance choosing appropriate linguistic means. Immediate and broad contexts are used to interpret the meaning of linguistic units and to develop the functional analytical skills of paraphrasing and rendering, offering the most suitable variant for the particular communicative situation. Being developed, these professional skills enable students to compile their individual glossaries and to comment upon translation decisions.