PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF CREATING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK FOR MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS

Abstract

The presented article deals with organizational principles and practical peculiarities of developing English textbooks for master’s degree students of law schools in the context of the current transition to a new educational paradigm. The relevance of the study is determined by the practical need to develop education manuals that meet the requirements of modern education standards and specific features of the level system of training specialist personnel in institutions of higher education in Russia. The research is based on the analysis of didactic materials and pedagogical literature on the relevant problem, descriptive and comparative methods, compilation of pedagogical practices in the development and use of a university textbook for master’s degree students. The author presents a specialized textbook that has been created by taking into account the requirements of the competency-based education model, as well as the guidelines of the modern linguodidactic paradigm, which determines the importance of practice-oriented and integrated language teaching for academic and professional purposes. Special attention is given to the principles of organizing the author’s textbook, its content and structural elements. The paper also emphasizes the need to further study the issues and experience of creating textbooks for higher educational institutions in order to improve the methodological support of classes in master’s degree programmes and the development of unified and complex requirements for university textbooks.