TRANSLATION AS AN ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY OF WORKING WITH LITERARY TEXT WHILE STUDYING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article analyzes the interaction of interpretation and translation in the process of working with a literary text in teaching Russian to foreigners. The authors consider translation not as an end in itself, but as an additional opportunity to teach students to read. In order to adjust the traditional method an experiment was conducted with the use of English fairy tales in the process of foreign students’ work with the texts in Boris Zakhoder’s literary translation/retelling. In the experiment the readers-volunteer worked through the tutorials created by the authors of this article. As a result of the generalization of practical experience, it is concluded that when teaching foreigners to read, the translation allows them to make self-tests to identify errors in the course of independent work, makes it possible to compare the educational translation with a professional one, helps to reveal some of the features and difficulties of translation from English into Russian.