FORMATION OF PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS

Abstract

In the article the authors considers forming professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence in future international lawyers as a goal and result of language training of international specialists at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia as a whole. The above-mentioned competence allows to ensure successful professional activity using a foreign language in legal and related spheres, as well as in educational and research activities. The authors describe the process of language training for the profession of international lawyers, the result of which is the ability to carry out foreign-language professional communication with native speakers to solve professionally significant communicative tasks. To describe the teaching process, the authors refer to such competences as linguistic, speech, pragmatic, strategic, compensatory, socio-cultural, subject, translation, self-educational, which are the content elements of professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence. In order to form and develop professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence, the authors have developed new textbooks for teaching the language of profession in a non-language university.