THE LABOUR FUNCTIONS OF A SPECIALIST AS THE BASIS FOR EDUCATIONAL TRACK CONSTRUCTING WHEN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPECIALTY

Abstract

Currently language departments of universities are quite actively engaged in the issue of verifying the content of education, taking into account the latest challenges of the time, the requirements of the state and the labour market. It has been established that the developers of the latest Federal State Educational Standard recommend universities to refer to the substantive part of the specialist’s labour functions verified in the Professional Standard, especially when developing educational tracks in academic disciplines. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to outline the specifics of designing an ESP educational track for future lawyers based on their labour functions. Here the author presents the accumulated experience of designing an ESP educational track for future lawyers at Financial University of Moscow. An analysis of the scientific works of researchers and the accumulated pedagogical experience of ESP teaching allowed the author to claim that during the construction of an educational track it is possible to rely on four labour functions of a lawyer, stated in the Draft of the professional standard “Lawyer”, the substantive component of which should be reflected both in the content of the track and in the verification of approaches (competence and CLIL) and methods of teaching. Experience in ESP teaching is given that reveals the crucial part of the lawyer’s labour functions, like the project method, the “flipped class” method, the “Moot court”, the case method and the IRAC method. The obtained results indicate the effectiveness of the work done in this field and allow to outline possible promising areas of development in the designated area, in particular: the establishing of relevant areas of training that are relevant to the latest trends in the development of the labour market, etc.