Keyword: «translation competence»

This article considers the problem of forming translation competence in the field of professional communi-cation. It contains the review of the works of various researchers, in which the characteristics of translation competence and its components are listed. Also, the author gives his own definition of translation compe-tence in the field of professional communication.

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.