Educational Technology of Forming the Professional Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Students of Higher Educational Establishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

У статті представлено педагогічну технологію формування професійної іншомовної комунікативної компетентності курсантів ВНЗ МВС України засобами інформаційних технологій, яка має забезпечити готовність майбутніх офіцерів міліції до здійснення ефективної професійної комунікації на рівні діалогу культур. Обґрунтовано її зміст, мету та завдання. Схарактеризовано специфічні дидактичні принципи, організаційні форми й методи, на яких базується розроблена педагогічна технологія.The educational technology of forming the professional foreign language communicative competence of students of higher educational establishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine by means of information technologies aimed at forming the readiness of future law enforcement officers to communicate effectively at the level of the dialogue of cultures is considered in the paper. It is substantiated that the achievement of the above mentioned goal provides for solving the following tasks of professional foreign language training: forming and broadening the professional foreign language thesaurus of law enforcement officers; developing the communicative skills of using linguistic means for building expressions in accordance with the norms of a certain language and depending on the context of the professional communication situation; developing the positive motivation and interest in studying the professionally-oriented foreign language; favouring the students’ realizing the strategic importance of getting the professional foreign language communicative competence for their future career in the context of international cooperation in the field of law; forming the readiness and developing the skills of operating the means of modern information technologies in the course of professional foreign language education. It is defined that by applying the means of information technologies in foreign language education the teacher can solve the following tasks: improving foreign language teaching methodology and materials; managing the learning process; correcting learning activities; automatizing the processes of control. It is stressed that Educational process of foreign language teaching in the framework of this educational technology should be based on the use of the following methods: a method of computer-aided learning; a communicative method, an audio-lingual method, and an audiovisual method. In addition, teaching technology of professional foreign language communicative competence of students of the universities of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine provides for the use of active methods of training at the lessons of foreign language, namely: communicative and interactive (trainings, discussions); games (business and role play); contextual (the method of simulating of professional activity); constructivist (project method, brainstorming), as well as research methods