Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article deals with the definition of author’s translation and the range of problems connected with the notion. We also analyze the reasons that forced the writers to be self-translated

The article presents the experience of creating Englishspeaking environment in Kazan Federal University, analyses the relevance of the problem, describes its basic aspects and offers ways of its solving

The article presents a comparative analysis of the factors that influence the appearance of the lacunas with the colour component in the Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese languages. Lacunar units are the most contrastive in the comparing languages. The article also reveals the phraseological lacunas of some language towards all other comparing languages (concerning phraseo-thematic groups and individual phraseological units

Word building system of English and its kin languages has been thoroughly investigated first in the grammatical aspect. We investigate the ways of teaching word-building in the context of grammatical approach in teaching foreign languages, specifically English, to future linguists whose major is Linguistics and who have to know the theory of the language as well as to be able to communicate in English. The authors of the article investigate the peculiarities of functioning of compound words, carry out their structural and semantic analysis, which serves as the basis for developing of the skill of working with lexis with young adult researchers. Based on the definition of a lexical skill the authors of the article investigate how to develop the skill of working with lexis with young adult researchers. We apply the grammatical method to developing word-building skills with future linguists when the main goal is to take off the material for investigation, analyze and classify it, thus, performing the operations essential for research of lexical units of a foreign language