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Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

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Student scientific club «The Art of Translation»

 

Location: room 4-1209, building 4

Organizers:

Department of Philology and Translation

Leader of the club:

Ass. Prof., Nataliia Gudkova, PhD

 

IMPORTANT DATES

30 September: International Translation Day

25 November: Applied Linguist’s Day

3 March: World Writers’ Day

29 March: World Philologist’s Day

23 April: Shakespeare’s Day

25 May: Philologist’s Day in Ukraine

The purpose of the scientific club: to identify and support talented students interested in translation studies and translation practice; to develop their skills in self-education, self-development, and analytical thinking; to enhance translation abilities and professional communicative competence; to improve knowledge of translation theory, practice, and intercultural communication; to engage students in research work, professional projects, creative competitions, and training sessions; and to create conditions for the development of translation mastery, creative growth, and successful professional realization.

Main tasks: involving students in scientific and practical activities in the field of translation; supporting the acquisition of methods and skills in translation research; providing experience in organizing and participating in projects, discussions, conferences, and seminars on translation studies; developing translation skills and competences; deepening knowledge of translation theory, practice, and related disciplines.

Scientific research topics of the student club: translation analysis of literary, journalistic, technical, and audiovisual texts; theory and practice of translation; methods of translation transformations; intercultural communication and the rendering of cultural realia in translation; terminology work and problems of translation adequacy; stylistic and genre-specific features of translation; translation and localization; translation as a type of speech activity; development of translation competences and the use of modern technologies in translation (cat-tools, corpus resources, machine translation)

 

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