A Legal Project Technology as an Interactive Form of Teaching a Foreign Languag

One of the main tasks of higher legal education is to provide future lawyers with effective functional knowledge of foreign languages and develop their foreign language communicative competence. Innovative technologies allow us to achieve considerable success in mastering the maximum amount of knowledge, maximum creativity, practical skills and abilities. Project activities are seen as a didactic method which helps to develop cognitive legal skills based on individual and collective creative mind, and also contributes to the improvement of social and creative skills necessary for the process of socialization. The article gives an explanation of the didactic concept as a creative mind, as well as an analysis of various types of project technologies used in interactive learning process in law schools when teaching a foreign language. The author defines the goals and challenges facing every kind of project method, describes the features of the research, search, creative, predictive and analytical project activities. The article describes the requirements and the procedure for the protection of the projects prepared by students of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University and indicated differences between the project technology from other types of interactive educational process such as discussion and brainstorming. Based on the analysis of project works of the students of Moscow State Law Academy the authors conclude that this technology contributes to the formation of foreign language competence in the course of professionally focused foreign language courses.

technological innovations, interactive learning, cognitive legal skills, didactic principles of teaching, project technology, functional role positions, foreign language competence, collective creative mind

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