APPLYING THE TRANSLATOR-EDITOR TEACHING TECHNIQUE IN THE CLASSROOM (BASED ON ‘HURRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE’ BY J.K. ROWLING )
The translator-editor teaching technique exposes students to the professional environment and gives them an idea of translator’s activities (from analyzing the source text to writing the target text). The article discusses aims, objectives, procedure, tasks, timing and materials provided in the classroom. Students take turns in working as translators and editors of excerpts from «Hurry Potter and the Goblet of Fire». There are also exercises for home assignment and individual projects. The article is the result of an effective collaboration of specialists in theory and practice of translation, Russian and Russian literature.