Specifics of forming a secondary linguistic professional personality of foreign law students

Abstract

The article deals with the specifics of forming a secondary linguistic professional personality of foreign law students during RFL classes at the department of language training ofV.N.KarazinKharkovNationalUniversity. The author has analyzed current trends in studying a secondary linguistic personality and a secondary linguistic professional personality based upon a language learning environment. The analysis includes the polylingual nature of a secondary professional personality in foreign students and insufficiency of a mother- tongue linguistic personality development for forming a professional personality. The article contains examples of drills to form a secondary linguistic professional personality intended for classroom and self-study work that include texts of documentation the future specialists are to work on in the course of their professional activity, which reflects a current paradigm of teaching languages in the higher school. The article includes a list of text-books on the specialty language created at the department. The body of these books comprises materials in the principal fields of study, such as theory of state and law, civil law, and criminal law that will be the subjects of the qualifying examinations during the third and the fourth – final – year of study. The author suggests that an incomplete secondary linguistic personality or only its individual features are formed in the course of learning Russian as a foreign language; and proposes the dynamics of further development of foreign law students’ secondary language professional personality from socio-linguo-cultural self-identification to a formation of a competitive in-demand personality which is ready for successful socialization and adaptation to the labour market and is actively developing up to the acmeological personality.