APPLYING THE THEORY OF SOLVING INVENTIVE PROBLEMS IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TRANSLATORS

Abstract

The relevance of the present issue is caused by a strong need to search for educational technologies aimed not only at acquiring knowledge, but also at developing students’ personal, cognitive and creative abilities. One of the concepts that allow to maintain such balance is the pedagogical system of the theory of solving inventive problems (TRIZ), which is based on the problem-search method and independent creative activities of students. The task of the article is to implement brainstorming – one of the TRIZ-technology method in 2 groups of linguists-translators (control and experimental) at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in Russian State Social University. In the experimental group the learners had already been taught by the innovative visual aids and the TRIZ-pedagogy method. The article represents the class plan in seven blocks: motivation; content part I; psychological uploading; puzzle; intellectual workout; content part II; summary. The structure of the lesson is developed in accordance with the author’s pedagogical system CFCT-TRIZ (continuous formation of creative thinking), founded by Russian Prof. M.M. Zinovkina. For the first time, TRIZ elements, originally created to solve scientific and technical problems, were successfully applied in the field of linguistics in the preparation of linguists-translators. The results of the research and t-Student criterion calculation show that the experimental group did better than the control one. Mean value of control group came up to 74,32 points whereas of experimental group – to 81,95 points. The significance level of t-Student test made < 0,001. The results confirm the necessity of applying TRIZ-technology method for teaching foreign languages in the context of developing an innovative vocational training system in higher education. The use of the TRIZ method contributed to increasing the efficiency of learning material, had a beneficial effect on the process of teaching a foreign language in the context of developing an innovative vocational training system in higher education.