MORAL ASPECT OF FUTURE LAWYERS’ LINGUISTIC EDUCATION
(ON THE BASIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATERIAL) 

Golovushkina Marina Vladimirovna, Candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of English language, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), marina52004@mail.ru
Voyachek Olga Stanislavovna, Senior lecturer, sub-department of English language, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), voachek@mail.ru

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Background. The actuality of appealing to the problem of the legal specialists’ moral culture development is a result of the value-based situation in our contemporary society. Social impact on the young generation predominates over pedagogical measures. Important axiological features of any personality such as duty, responsibility and honor are disappearing. This article describes the possibilities of future lawyers’ moral training with the help of linguistic education. The authors of the article defined the main problem of their investigation. It is to reveal the possibilities of future lawyers’ moral training by means of foreign language; to draw colleagues’ attention to this problem.
Materials and methods. The research was based on pedagogical (axiological and human-oriented approaches, synergetic and system analysis), sociological (psychological and collective approaches) and linguistic (integrated approach) approaches and methods, permitting to study all sides of the problem and solve the assigned research aims. Professional texts, situations requiring moral choice, communicative activities actualizing the demonstration of students’ individual law consciousness, their position as subjects of law and citizens of law society were used by the authors as means of investigation.
Results. As a result of the survey conducted between the first year students of the Law Faculty of Penza State University their most important professional, business, mental and ethical qualities were discovered. That’s why the practical purpose of the research is to develop the educational process directed to future lawyers’ moral training within the framework of the subject «English in Law» and to organize it correctly and according to pedagogical principles.
Conclusions. Scientific originality of the investigation is determined by the fact that the research enriches the practical component of the English language teaching for professional purposes in contemporary educational establishments and opens new possibilities for students and foreign language teachers.

moral training, language learning, foreign language, forming of moral qualities, lawyer, morality, moral choice.

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