THE RELEVANCE OF THE FORMATION TRAINEES’ HARD AND SOFT SKILLS ON THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS IN LAW HIGHER SCHOOLS OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA

Abstract

The article studies a problem of forming “hard” and “soft” skills in teaching a foreign language at a university of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The formation of these skills is included in the list of qualification characteristics of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and is designated in the form of professional competencies. The relevance of this topic involves an integrative approach to the formation and development of these skills in teaching speech skills and with a focus on foreign language speaking. Communicative interaction in the study of professionally oriented lexical and grammatical material includes the entire range of sociolinguistic communication abilities. The future employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia acquires the skills of developing the situation and how to respond to it with such actions (flexibility and adaptability) that will give the best result for all those involved in this situation. In addition, the authors consider the police officer as a reliable communicator who establishes contacts with citizens and performs well under operational conditions.