Abstract
The article deals with teaching the Russian sign language to certain categories of internal affairs personnel at the higher educational institutions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs under the conditions of time shortage. The authors assess psychological and pedagogical conditions of the Russian sign language teaching and provide some innovative teaching methods to accelerate the learning process. A compulsory requirement to any contemporary professionals, including the professionals in law-enforcement, is the ability to adapt to changing social and economic realities. Nowadays, in conditions of globalization and integrational processes, skills of socio-communicative interaction between a police officer and various categories of citizens are essential and very important as well as other general cultural skills that any professional should have since they provide success and efficiency of any professional activity in modern world. To exercise their professional activities internal affairs personnel have to acquire additional professional competences due to new tasks. These days we witness growing importance for police officers to enjoy such professional skills as the abilities to interact with people with disabilities. Linguocommunicative training of police personnel in the sphere of the Russian sign language is an important component of their professional education and their skills to get in contact with hearing-impaired people using sign language are becoming highly important in contemporary conditions.
Highlights
The necessity to adapt to the changing social and legislative environment influences professional training of law enforcement officers
The purpose of the study is methodical support of the educational process aimed at formation of theoretical knowledge on dactylology, the Russian sign language, at the peculiarities of communication with disabled people with hearing impairment and in development of communicative skills in order to converse with the deaf and hard of hearing people using the sign language
In the process of crime investigation, when receiving reports on an incident or interrogating offenders, police officers come into contact with people of different backgrounds
Summary
The necessity to adapt to the changing social and legislative environment influences professional training of law enforcement officers. Helping citizens with disabilities, including citizens with hearing impairment, is one of the social policy priorities in Russia and in other countries [2 – 7]. Any extreme situation causes a lot of problems for the citizens mentioned above and, first of all, these are communicative problems. Nowadays the ability to communicate with citizens with hearing impairment using sign language is of highly importance. The relevance of the scientific research is due to the requirements for the quality of professional training for internal affairs personnel in the context of the RF Interior Ministry’s reforms. It is necessary to develop some didactic materials that will reflect the specific features of the linguo-communicative training of internal affairs personnel of different ranks
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