FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN COURSE OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT HIGHER SCHOOLS FOR FUTURE LAWYERS

Abstract

The peculiarities of language teaching to the students whose future profession is area of law are considered in the article. The ways and means of intercultural competence formation with future law experts in the process of their foreign language training are the subject of investigation. Intercultural competence is considered as the result of mastering the general cultural, linguistic, value-semantic, country-study, socio-cultural and psychological competencies.
The article draws our attention to implementation of international standards in academic process. It is stressed that the major principle of foreign language training should be the principle of mutual enrichment with the strengths of foreign cultures together with preservation of own originality and integrity.
It is noted that language skills development with lawyers is closely connected with correct terminology application, grammar constructions proper use, avoiding vague or multi-valued meanings. The paper is concerned with variety of methodological approaches that are used in the process of foreign language training.
The authors of the article investigate methods and forms of the academic discipline “Foreign language for special purposes”. The series of exercises is suggested to improve foreign language training with future lawyers. It is proved that foreign language professional competence can be realized through the activity covering such language actions as getting information from the world internet network, making presentations, written and oral information exchange (e-mailing), expressing ideas and discussing problems etc.
It is of great interest to the language teachers who are expected to guide students in the acquisitions of various skills, contributing to the development of their knowledge and understanding of a target language and culture, helping them reflect on their own culture as well.
It is summarized that all the issues mentioned above demonstrate the fact that position of the academic discipline “Foreign language for special purposes” has strengthened in higher education of Ukrainian lawyers nowadays as well as great importance for looking for new effective ways to train highly qualified lawyers.