Abstract
The article considers the possibility of using a short humorous text as a standard illustrating the native English speakers’ verbal behaviour in teaching professional foreign language to students of non-linguistic fields of study. The author gives examples of comic stories from a popular American edition demonstrating different educational functions of the text material. The paper offers a three-stage model of speech competence formation of students majoring in “Jurisprudence”, which is developed taking into account the speech potential of a joke or anecdote.
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