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The paper addresses the contemporary challenges to develop digital skills of students being trained as linguist-translators. This urgency stems from the rapid development of computer technologies designed to facilitate and accelerate the translation process since digital technologies remove the space-time restrictions imposed on the process of teaching foreign language(s) and translating with the traditional format of education. The current trend has raised some concerns on “devaluating” the profession of a linguist-translator and leads to revising his or her professional functions. The analysis of the current labor functions of the translator is presented based on the Russian professional standard “Specialist in the Field of Translation”, approved in 2021. In order to confirm the impossibility to exclude the human factor from the translation process, the authors studied some English-language texts translated with the use of machine translation systems, which allow to identify and analyze some inconsistencies with the Russian language standards. In such a case, the translator is to play the role of an editor who is able to make adjustments and choose some adequate and equivalent alternative translation options. Therefore, the paper demonstrates that modern linguistic and translation education is to be interdisciplinary in nature, combining both human and digital technologies to solve professional translation challenges.
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Arias, AM., Fedyukovskaya, M., Fedyukovsky, A. (2022). Challenges in Professional Translation: Implications for Linguistic Education and the Modern Digital Economy. In: Rumyantseva, A., Plotnikov, V., Minin, A., Anyigba, H. (eds) Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Economy and Finance. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14410-3_9
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