THE DISTANCE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE LAWYERS
Abstract
Ukrainian integration into European and world structures, as well as the rapid development of information technologies are reflected in all aspects of life and the field of educational activity is not an exception. Today, the modernization of the educational system in the state is increasingly associated with the development of distance learning, which is considered as one of the essential factors for increasing the competitiveness of the educational services market. This form of training is widely used in Western European, US, and other developed countries. Accordingly, while staying apart from world educational processes, we risk losing a part of the students who, instead of domestic educational institutions, will choose more convenient and modern foreign analogues in the distance format.
In this regard, the research aimed at developing the theoretical and methodological foundations of the distance educational system, creating appropriate teaching methods and developing training courses, is relevant. This issue is especially relevant for M. E. Zhukovsky National Aerospace University «KhAI», since a new specialty «Law» for the training of future lawyers has been opened recently at this higher educational establishment.
The system of distance learning in our country is in the stage of formation, however, its importance and promise are evidenced by the development of a broad legal framework and an increasing number of works, including those devoted to problems of distance learning of English in a non-lingual higher educational institution, including the dissertation level. However, we failed to find enough work on the problems of distance learning of foreign languages in the process of training future lawyers, which indicates the need for research in this area.
The purpose of the article is to reveal effective ways of using the distance teaching of foreign languages while training future lawyers.
The implementation of this goal requires solving the following tasks:
– to familiarize with normative documents and researches of domestic and foreign scientists concerning distance learning in general and training of lawyers in particular;
– to define the concept of «distance learning»;
– to explore distance learning technologies;
– to provide methodological recommendations on the effective use of multimedia learning complexes during the distance teaching of future lawyers in a foreign language.
The results of the analysis of the professional literature, normative documents, the real state of professional training of future lawyers in higher educational institutions have allowed to identify the contradictions between: the requirements of modernizing the legal educational system through the use of economically viable and pedagogically effective innovative teaching technologies that reduce the auditorial load and substantially increase autonomy and cognitive activity of students, and the inadequate use of the potential of distance learning for solving these problems; the relevance in the national scientific space of the problems of vocational education of future lawyers and the lack of elaboration of the issue of the application of distance learning technologies that meet the current conditions in the process of forming their professional competence.
We have found out that distance learning, according to A. A. Andreev’s definition, is a synthetic, integrated, humanistic form of learning based on the use of a wide range of traditional and new information technologies and their technical means used to deliver educational material, to study it independently, to organize an interactive exchange between a teacher and a student when the learning process does not depend on their location in space and time, as well as on a particular educational institution.
It has been revealed that, currently, there are several distance learning technologies and the main objective of using distance learning technologies at universities is to provide students with access to electronic educational resources through the use of modern information technologies and telecommunication networks.
We have offered a variant of methodical recommendations for the effective use of multimedia educational complexes during distance teaching of future lawyers in a foreign language. Methodical recommendations are developed in English for home studying students on the «Law» specialty on the «Criminology» course. This course includes 15 modules. The purpose of this self-study course is to provide students with comprehensive guidance on criminology. This is an ideal course for anyone who wants to improve knowledge of crime independently, its impact on society and how to administer justice in this field, as well as to improve their English language proficiency.
Consequently, distance teaching foreign languages for future lawyers can help to better master the knowledge of legal disciplines and orientation in the international legal space in the context of the selection of appropriate methodological recommendations for the effective use of multimedia learning complexes during distance learning in foreign languages. Therefore, further research in this direction is to develop such methodological recommendations and to test them. However, it should be remembered that such training cannot completely replace the full-time one, because students should have a live communication practice.Keywords
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