Bilingual Culture of a Future Translator – a Requirement of Modern European Education

Abstract

The processes of globalization, modern educational trends, changing values, rapid development of science, increasing business and personal contacts with speakers of other cultures necessitate the education of bilingual culture of communication in future translators and other educators. The proposed article reveals the concepts of bilingualism, bilingual personality, bilingual culture of communication and its features, establishes the content characteristics and relationships. The peculiarities of the bilingual personality of the translator are substantiated, which promotes the assimilation of norms and values of another culture as important landmarks of intercultural communication and is the basis of successful adaptation to world educational and information processes. One of the possible ways of educating bilingual culture of communication in the process of preparing future translators for professional activity, which is to use the model of formation of communicative-linguistic bilingual skills, is presented. It is this system of bilingual training that allows to determine the specifics of bilingual communication by knowing the general laws of communication culture and specifying their basic provisions.