University disciplines integration as a means of pre-service audiovisual translators' professional skills development

Introduction. There has been an increasing recognition of the need to empower translation students to meet market demands. To allow each student to function within the language mediation community upon graduation, the emphasis must be placed on involving them into learning at the early stages at the university though integration of disciplines to obtain professional skills. The purpose of the research is the development of pre-service audiovisual translators’ professional skills. Methods and materials. The sample group was represented by the first-year students of Novosibirsk State Technical University, majoring in Translation, Linguistics program. The research was carried out during the period of 6 weeks (2023). The total number of students participating in experimental learning is 51. The main method of the research was Wilcoxon rank sum test and 360 degree peer review method. Results. The findings of the study indicate the effectiveness of integration of disciplines in the development of professional skills of pre-service audiovisual translators in finding the sounds to be transformed into the target language, as well as in finding the coarticulation processes and suprsegmental means (p≤0.01). The analysis of the experimental data indicates, on the other hand, the small number of students with a high level of making a dubbing translation with phonological synchronization (9.8%) and of producing the adequacy of translation (11.7%). This can be explained by the complexity of audiovisual translating process. KEYWORDS Conclusion. The application of integration of disciplines to training university students motivates them to study the language discipline more consciously and to develop professional skills of pre-service audiovisual translators.