The role of translation in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university

In the conditions of constant renewal of the modern education, the development of methods for increasing the efficiency of developing professional competencies in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university becomes relevant.It is necessary to resolve the contradiction caused by the exclusion of translation from mod- ern teaching methods and the reserves of methods using translation. The problem of the research is to introduce tasks using the native language into modern methods of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university.The purpose of the research is to clarify the role of translation in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. The article reveals the essence of translation in foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university, reveals the psychological mechanism of mastering a foreign language and the place of translation in this process, assesses the degree of necessity of using bilingual exercises in professional teaching of a foreign language.The provisions on the natural conformity of the learning process made up the methodological basis of the research. The methods of comparison, analysis, observation were used in the work, a pedagogical experiment was carried out. Maikop State Technological University acted as an experimental base.The essence of the concept of «translation» in the methodology of foreign language teaching has been determined; a model of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university developed; a textbook has been compiled. It has been concluded that the development of professional competence of students of a non-linguistic university in terms of «foreign language business communication» will be more effective if introduced into the system of foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university, a model of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university using translation as a method and purpose of teaching.