The Importance of grammar for translator training
ENFor the translation to be reliable and fluent, of vital importance are the knowledge of, and the facility with, the grammar patterns of the source and target languages. The aim of the paper is to discuss the aspects of rendering the linguistic meaning while translating from Lithuanian into English and vice versa and the importance of the systematic approach towards developing the linguistic awareness of would-be translators. The library research method was used to discuss the meanings of the word and the comparative/contrastive method was used to highlight the differences of the usage of some grammatical categories in the English and Lithuanian languages. The contrastive analysis revealed the differences in the grammatical structures of the Lithuanian and English languages that cause some change in the information content of the message during the process of translation. Thus, the would-be translators should be taught not only the lexical-semantical systems but also the grammatical ones. Although it is possible to study grammar by taking bite-sized chunks and trying to accumulate a complete picture of the system, it is much more efficient to study it as a system. Grammar teaching involves not just studying the grammatical structures but also the meanings they express, and the contexts in which they may be used. The essence of such a proposal is that grammatical structures are not isolated from their meanings or their uses. The research is supposed to be relevant to both the lecturers training translators and the students determined to learn translation strategies.
