Selection of Foreign Language Teaching Content in Russian Master of Laws (LLM) Graduate Programs

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 The English Language Department, Faculty of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, MGIMO University (Odintsovo branch), Moscow, Russia.

2 Foreign Languages Department, Institute for Economics, Management and Social Technologies, Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev - KAI, Kazan, Russia.

3 Department of Contrastive Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia.

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 10, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Linguistics Issues (ALI 2019) July 19-20, 2019, Saint Petersburg, Russia
This special issue of the journal includes papers published in the spirit of academic support of the conference and so they did not go through the review process defined by the journal.
July 2019
Pages 10-30

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