Web Forum as a Means of Development of Sociocultural Skills of University Students Specializing in Translation and Interpreting

Abstract

Modern information and communication technologies which seemed to be a distant future justa few years ago became a reality quite quickly. In this regard, the issue of using the web forum indevelopment of socio-cultural knowledge and skills of students has become relevant. The learning processcan undoubtedly be intensified by means of targeted expansion of the scope of application of Internettechnologies. The article aims to represent an educational system of development of sociocultural skills ofstudents majoring in Translation and Interpreting by means of the web forum and to offer an algorithm forits implementation in the course of experimental training involving web forums. The article defines the setof sociocultural skills of students in Translation and Interpreting, which is formed on the basis of the webforum.The author's educational program and methodical conditions for development of socio-culturalskills by means of web forums, as well as an algorithm for development of sociocultural skills of studentson the basis of the described Internet technology are described.