Keyword: «students of non-linguistic profiles»

Teaching a foreign language to university students of non-linguistic profiles is regarded as professionally oriented. An integral part of foreign language proficiency as a means of professional activity is translation competence. The author gives a brief overview of the works of various researchers, that describe the stages of formation and development of professionally oriented translation competence of non-linguistic students, and also shares her own experience.

The article is devoted to the issues of professional foreign language teaching of university students. The author analyzes the role of translation practice and translation of professionally-oriented texts in the process of formation and improvement of students' foreign language competence. Considering professionally-oriented translation competence as one of the components of foreign language communicative competence, the author describes the importance of teaching translation from the point of view of various aspects of the process of teaching a foreign language for special purposes.