№ 01 (January)

The article relevance is determined by the search for new methods of involving college and university students in patriotic education through working with the materials developed in English. In the authors’ opinion, usage of an educational computer game can be such an innovative method. The purpose of the study is to identify the particularities of using such games, approaches for deeper emotional involvement of young people in gaming activities, and to clarify the content of the stages/phases of game development. Research methods and materials include analysis of foreign and domestic scientific and methodological literature on the use of computer games for educational purposes, clarification of the content of development and integration phases, and analysis of the use of the computer game developed. The results of the study highlighted the particularities of computer games for patriotic education of Russian youth. Firstly, at the stage of initiating of a computer game development, pedagogical goals should be formulated, as they determine the genre of the game, its mechanics, the sequence of historical situations for visualization in graphic form. Secondly, patriotic messages in a computer game can be delivered by means of computer graphics. Thirdly, the authors recommend to supplement the alpha version of the educational computer game with an independent review, evaluation and certification. Finally, the study showed that the teacher during the communication with the students participating in gaming activity should follow the principles of pedagogical ethics: providing clear instructions on how to pass through the game; respect for students independence, their focus on success; providing a sound feedback and valuable comments both on the topic of the game itself, and on technical issues or assessment of cognitive activity; voluntary participation and confidentiality should be ensured as well. Under the circumstances of distance learning, such games can be a drive for young people to gain experience in using digital Internet resources, for organizing discussions in English devoted to memorable dates of the Russian history during English classes.

Successful prevention of juvenile delinquency and recidivism by police officers consists in the formation of their legal knowledge in the field of social and pedagogical rehabilitation of the persons under supervision. The aim is to assess the level of legal knowledge of future police officers about the essence, structure and content of socio-pedagogical rehabilitation of those persons for the development and practical implementation of the methodology, theory and procedure for the formation of police officers’ competence in the field of socio-pedagogical rehabilitation work with supervised persons. To achieve this goal, the test «Checking the level of knowledge about the implementation of social and pedagogical rehabilitation activities of supervised citizens» was developed, consisting of 40 questions, which were divided into three blocks: regulatory, methodological and psychological-pedagogical. This test was offered to 56 students of the Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Yekaterinburg. This article presents the results of testing on the regulatory block. The test revealed low level of students’ knowledge of the normative and legal documents regulating implementation of social and pedagogical rehabilitation of persons under supervision. The authors examine the reasons for choosing wrong answer options by the students. This will make it possible to avoid the formation of incorrect ideas, knowledge, and negative attitude to this area of work in the process of professional training of cadets for social and pedagogical rehabilitation work with supervised persons. Based on the results obtained, the authors developed and introduced into the educational process of the Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia the manual “Case study for training law enforcement officers to carry out social and pedagogical rehabilitation work with supervised citizens”. The work with this textbook forms the knowledge, skills and abilities for the implementation of social and pedagogical rehabilitation of supervised persons, contributes to the stimulation of the research potential of students; develops their ability to dispute, debate, discuss, and argumentatively defend their point of view.

The relevance of the research problem is due to the processes of globalization, entailing changes in the world educational space, including Russian higher education establishments; the contradictions between the needs of the modern graduates to be able to participate in foreign language communication and a lack of well-developed methodological base which is necessary to form students’ language competence through cross-cultural communication in the classroom. The purpose of the research is to consider the understanding of the concept "competence", in particular “language competence”, by the representatives of foreign and Russian scientific communities, and to determine the features of the formation of language competence of University students in the light of the communicative approach, to identify priority areas that determine the effectiveness of teaching foreign language through cross-cultural communication-based activities involving students in discussions of social and professional-oriented situations. The study is based on such methods as theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature concerning the research problem, pedagogical observation and generalization of the results of the proven record of the authors. The theoretical significance of the article is revealed in the interpretation of "language competence" concept of the foreign and Russian scientists, as well as the justification of the specifics of the implementation of the communicative approach in the process of formation of University students’ language competence through social and professional-oriented discussions, i.e. training a competent language user, who is able to communicate in multicultural society and in the sphere of business. The practical significance of the research is to consider specific methodological aspects for effective problem solving while arranging foreign language communication through activity-based tasks performance. It is concluded that the formation of students' language competence in order to implement cross-cultural communication implies a cognitive and activity-based learning, i.e. it’s necessary to involve students in the process of foreign language communication. The article presents didactic materials helping create an atmosphere of real-life cross-cultural communication, and push students to cognitive and activity-based communication, pair and small group collaboration, and problem discussion activities through the exchange of reasoned opinions, which contributes to the development of students' mental activity and the formation of cross-cultural communication skills.

Depression is a common affective disorder, and disturbances in the emotional sphere in this pathology are obvious. Emotionality acts as a psychological property of a person; recent studies have made it possible to determine the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of this virtue. In order to study the relationship between the characteristics of emotionality and the manifestations of depression at a young age, a study was conducted. In the course of the work, it was revealed that the somatic manifestations of depression are more pronounced with increased emotional excitability and significant negative influence of emotions; the cognitive-affective characteristics of depression can be determined by the general level of emotional excitability of the individual.

The timeliness of the study stems from the fact that the effectiveness of formal institutions determines the economic well-being of a country. The purpose of the article is to identify the role and functions of formal institutions in the context of Coase’s theorem. The study concluded that in the case of high transaction costs, formal institutions should play a key role in economic exchange, ensuring the transfer of property rights to the most effective agent. In the case of low transaction costs, formal institutions should provide the most favorable conditions for the voluntary exchange of property rights.

The problem of determining the amount of money supply required in circulation became the most urgent after the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system. This is because the exchange rate has become directly dependent on the produced GDP. If earlier the circulation of money was ensured by gold, now the Central Bank started to regulate money supply began. Thus, the regulation of the money supply has become a function of public policy. The purpose of this work is to study the influence of the GDP monetization level on macroeconomic indicators. The study revealed that the economy of developed countries is characterized by high monetization rates. Saturation of the economy with monetary funds at high growth rates of the gross domestic product does not cause significant inflationary processes, but significantly stimulates even greater economic growth.