TY - JOUR ID - 14672 TI - Selection of Foreign Language Teaching Content in Russian Master of Laws (LLM) Graduate Programs JO - Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics JA - RALS LA - en SN - 2345-3303 AU - Chiknaverova, Karine AU - Gazizova, Alfia AU - Mingazova, Nailya AD - The English Language Department, Faculty of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, MGIMO University (Odintsovo branch), Moscow, Russia. AD - Foreign Languages Department, Institute for Economics, Management and Social Technologies, Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev - KAI, Kazan, Russia. AD - Department of Contrastive Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 10 IS - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Linguistics Issues (ALI 2019) July 19-20, 2019, Saint Petersburg, Russia SP - 10 EP - 30 KW - Foreign Language Teaching KW - Master of Laws Programs KW - Teaching Content Components DO - 10.22055/rals.2019.14672 N2 - Master`s degree was integrated into the system of Russian Higher Education several decades ago, however, teaching foreign languages at this level still needs further analysis including the postgraduate law students training. The article investigates the principal components of foreign language teaching in Master of laws Graduate Programs (considering the case of the English language) on the bases of various methods: the analysis of related regulatory and standard-setting documents, linguistic analysis of legal texts; content analysis of textbooks and other resources; methods of analysis and synthesis, classification and descriptive methods, theoretical analysis of methodological and applied research literature. As a result of the study the basic teaching content components were revealed, including linguistic and speech material; professional, linguistic, intercultural knowledge; the corresponding reproductive and productive skills. The findings reflect the factors of content-setting of LLM graduate programs   concerning graduates' professional activity (law making, law enforcement, expert, consulting, organizational, managerial, research and pedagogical issues), professional duties; purposes and teaching duration; requirements as for the training output by federal educational standards. UR - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_14672.html L1 - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_14672_e8e743e8e987361eba79b4cc3ceeb68c.pdf ER -