Keyword: «language of law»

Due to the increasing interest in the international legal profession in the context of globalisation, there is a growing demand for legal education programs that involve not only the study of domestic and foreign law by students, but also their preparation for participation in international events, involving excellent knowledge of a foreign language. However, in a short study period, the task of mastering a foreign language at a level sufficient to carry out professional communication in the field of law is challenging. The present study addresses the issue of early professionalisation of future international lawyers, which would allow them to start mastering the basics of law not only within special disciplines, but also in the early stages of foreign language learning. In order to motivate students when working with complex professional vocabulary in a foreign language, this article proposes the use of a special type of text similar to legal texts, namely the public sign. The topicality of the research is proved by the world experience in the field of early professionalization of lawyers, however in pedagogical practice (domestic and foreign) there is no experience of teaching lawyers a foreign language using a public sign, which is certainly a scientific novelty of the present research. The aim of the study is to develop methodological recommendations and techniques for working with public signs in the German lesson with future international lawyers. The main theoretical methods were used in the work: analysis, comparison, generalization of the results of domestic and foreign research as well as the method of analysis of authentic public signs selected for educational purposes. The main results of the article include a number of tasks and methodological recommendations for working with the comprehensible text type "public sign". The theoretical significance of the research is seen in the comprehensive study of culture and language in the process of their mutual functioning. The practical value lies in the fact that the use of a public sign as a text, which in addition to the verbal component also includes an image, helps ease the difficulties of students who are just beginning to learn a foreign language to master the complex legal vocabulary in the target language. The proposed set of tasks can be used in pedagogical practice in German lessons when teaching lawyers at a non-linguistic university.