'Jeopardy!’ game as edutainment technology of forming students’ translation competence.

Abstract

Teaching foreign languages and cultures as well as translation is to be regularlyimproved. Various educational technologies are used for this purpose, with one of them – edutainment – beingthe most efficient for the digital generation of learners. The purpose of this article is to describe the experienceof applying the edutainment technology as a modern technology for the formation of translation competenceamong students majoring in Philology/Translation during the “Theory and Practice of Translation” classes.Methods. The studies on teaching technologies, edutainment in particular, conducted abroad and in Ukraine havebeen reviewed. Results. This study has proved that teaching modern generation learners requires innovativeeducational approaches and technologies, such as interactive, gaming, project ones and others. Edutainmenttechnology helps decide the problem of students’ distracted attention combining the monotonous educationwith dynamic entertainment that motivates them to study and reach the desired results. Interactive nature ofedutainment involves all learners into the process, with both weaker and stronger students feeling their belongingto educational activities. Thus, educational and entertaining game ‘Jeopardy!’ (adaptation of the televisiongame show of the same name) was used as an edutainment technology to work with translation students andform their translation competence. This game facilitated the analysis of the text under consideration for its furthertranslation, prompted the learners to remember and use their knowledge on translation techniques and thecurrent topic, involved the students fully into the learning process, engaged and motivated them to activelyparticipate in the game to win it. Conclusion. To sum up, it was found that using the adapted ‘Jeopardy!’ gameas the edutainment technology during the “Theory and Practice of Translation” classes facilitates the processof forming translation competence components of future translators.