BUSINESS GAME AS A MEANS OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE PROCESS OF HIGHER LEGAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article reveals the specifics of business games application as a didactic tool that promotes the development of communicative competence of a law student. The article substantiates the idea that in the educational process the teacher should pay special attention to such pedagogical means and techniques that will ensure the future lawyer’s readiness to interact in the professional legal sphere, cooperation in various situations of professional interaction. The author concludes that business games, imitating real professional situations of legal practice, are an effective means in the educational process to improve professional skills and the development of communicative competence of future lawyers. The results of the study contribute to the addition and updating of scientific ideas about didactic means involving the modeling of situations of professional interaction and their use in the system of higher legal education.