Научный доклад ID 2764 : 2025/3

The paper treats the role of specialized texts English-Bulgarian translation within the English for PhD students course at the University of Transport, Bulgaria, with respect to learners’ language awareness (LA) enhancement. This topic relevance stems, on the one hand, from the course curriculum objectives related to improving students’ general and specialized communicative competence and, on the other, from the status of translation ranging among the most frequently performed tasks with PhD students. LA, as it has already been revealed, is a crucial prerequisite to communicative competence perfecting. Thus, investigating translation impact on students’ raised comprehension of translated professional texts content, message and particular language features, testifying to learners’ heightened LA, provides valuable insight into studied task (and procedure alike) educational significance as a whole (translation preparatory activities and translation process itself). The current study findings derive from observing PhD students handling translation supporting activities, based on a variety of language learning strategies (LLS) implementation, translation process itself, and, from exploring learners’ attitude towards the applied approaches usefulness as to translated material grasping in general and with respect to its characteristics. Research is developed within the context of a number of literature sources, made reference to, and, highlighting pedagogical translation value as well as its implementation beneficial effects. Conclusion is made as to specialized translation impact not only on PhD students’ LA, but also on related teaching process parameters, such as learner autonomy (LrA) and motivation (LM). Translation procedure importance is likewise stated with respect to specialists’ improved employability.