THE KEY POSITIONS AND APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF FOREIGN COMPETENCIES FOR SEEKERS OF LEGAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article reviews the main positions regarding the requirements, approaches and methods of teaching a foreign language for seekers of legal education. Particular attention is paid to the development of competencies and key methodological approaches in the study of a foreign language, involved at the present days the educational field of Ukrainian universities. The essence of teaching a foreign language to lawyers is revealed as a crossroads of lines of general linguistic competencies, linguistic and cultural characteristics and the specific requirements of the legal language at the junction of the native and foreign languages.It is argued that the professional activities of law enforcement officers require certain language and communication skills. Professional communicative competence is formed on the basis of communicative competence. It, in turn, is determined by the communicative intentions of the addressee; adherence to communication strategies that allow to achieve the desired result of communication; knowledge of the interlocutor's personality; feedback in the act of communication, which takes into account the psychological characteristics of the addressee, his social roles; ability to overcome psychological "obstacles"; the ability to have the skills to decode the nonverbal speech of the interlocutor; orientation in the conditions and situations of communication; orientation and support of the communication process itself; control of one's own speech behavior, emotions, etc .; skills and abilities to complete communication, get out of it, control the effects after communication, etc.