Formation of foreign language competence of future lawyers/law enforcement officers: Contemporary challenges

Abstract

The article highlights an increasingly popular English teaching form in 2021-2022. The authors realize the most effective ways and methodologies to form foreign language competence of future lawyers and law enforcement officers. The article reveals that these methodologies can overcome contemporary challenges, including the Pandemic and Global destabilization. The article under consideration aims to demonstrate pedagogical approaches, interactive applications, and digitalized resources that, in theoretical and practical terms, have a positive experience in training future law enforcement officers in disciplines such as "Foreign Language" and "Foreign Language for Professional Purposes" at higher educational establishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The study proves the author's method of forming foreign language competence of future lawyers/law enforcement officers using educational web technologies, which have the following components: pedagogical and organizational, users, language, social, and technical. The methodology expresses the following conceptual principles: multilevel nature of foreign language teaching which involves the formation of students' different communicative competencies per the European recommendations on language education; communicative orientation of learning foreign languages, which allows students to form competencies on which the success and effectiveness of intercultural communication depend; organization of foreign language training based on professionallyoriented material; integration of educational Web and pedagogical technologies (blended learning, methods of projects and case technologies, students' electronic language portfolio) which allow implementing the principle of individual approach to learning foreign languages; informal education in foreign language training at higher educational institutions with specific conditions of learning taking into account the gender approach in the process of forming the foreign language competence of future law enforcement officers. Based on the study, the authors concluded that the availability and prevalence of educational Web-technologies allow their use as an integrated part of foreign language training of non-philological students, especially in a blended learning format. Furthermore, the obtained experimental data allowed the formulation of methodological recommendations corresponding to the research results.