The Role of Mentoring in the Teaching Practice Period

The need for a system of high-quality mentoring during students’ teaching practice, which takes place on the basis of educational institutions is substantiated. The views of various researchers on the concept of mentoring, as well as on the personality qualities that a teacher-mentor should have, are summarized. The experience of organizing teaching practice for the period 2018–2020 is analyzed. On the example of real situations, negative moments in the work of both teacher-mentor and the staff and administration of educational institutions were identified.

Integrated Safety and Security of Educational Institution

The relevance of the issue studied is related to the need to solve the most important social problem of ensuring the safety of the educational environment and educational space at the theoretical and applied levels. The author’s classifications of risks and threats as factors that hinder the security of the educational environment are compared. The article substantiates the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the study and provision of integrated safety and security of the educational space. The structure of the security system of a modern educational institution is revealed, and the importance of the readiness of the subjects of the educational environment to ensure their own security is emphasized.

Teaching Ways of Emphasizing and Neutralizing of Connotation While Using Lexical Transformations in Translation of Fiction

The scientific work includes wide theoretical and practical material about the study of necessity to use and teach students-future interpreters how to emphasize and neutralize connotations during fiction translation. Use of fiction as translation teaching aids is substantiated from the point of view of possible worlds theory and mental space of a language. Frequently used lexical, stylistics and combinatory transformations are recognized in translation of connotations from English into Russian on the example of the novel “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. Rowling. The scientific work deals with the study of using different transformations due to which there is an effect of emphasizing and neutralizing. Difficulties of connotation translation are observed and ways to overcome the difficulties are given.