The application of the contrastive analysis in teaching Russian-English translation to the students of the Asian-Pacific region

UDC 372.881.111.1 BBK 74.58

Antonova A. B.

Contrastive analysis has a great educational potential. However it is quite difficult to use it in teaching Russian-English translation to the students of the Asian-Pacific region due to the problem of three contacting languages’ interaction (two foreign languages: Russian and English and the learners’ native languages); it’s quite problematic and painstaking to reveal all the similarities and the difficulties of the elements of these non-related languages’ systems.

Key words: contrastive analysis, students of the Asian-Pacific region, Russian-English translation, contacting languages

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