Role Play Technology In The Future Lawyers' Professional Training

Abstract

The article addresses essential aspects of a role play which is closely connected with the concepts of gamification and edutainment and plays a significant role in facilitating law students' professionally significant competences, building up their legal culture. The study undertaken here advocates the task-based language teaching as an integral part of the future lawyers’ professional training. Hence the goal of our study is to provide theoretical justification and methodological development of the concept of role play in foreign language teaching as a means of promoting second language learning and facilitating professional training. We have analyzed the impact of role play on the learner acquisition processes and forming of their professionally significant competences. We have identified stages and worked out an algorithm of role play, have made an attempt to implement socio-pedagogical and psycho-didactic conditions, required for the proper integration of role plays into the educational process to make the process of forming future lawyers' professional competences possible. The conceptual framework of the study follows the model of professional competence approach. Research and experience data obtained in our experimental work make it possible to identify the significance of role play in second language learning designed for law students’ professional development in educational programs at law faculties.