November 2025, № 4 (248), pages 117-123

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-248-117

Morozova A.L. SELECTED ISSUES OF TEACHING FOREIGN SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY AT NONLINGUISTIC FACULTIESThe teaching of highly professional foreign vocabulary at nonlinguistic faculties at Russian universities has traditionally been given special attention by the teaching staff of the relevant foreign language departments. The purpose of the proposed research is to verify approaches and methods of teaching legal vocabulary based on the accumulated pedagogical experience at Financial University of Moscow. While conducting theoretical research, it has been revealed that the combination of ideas of CLIL and competence-based approaches in teaching legalese to future lawyers is optimal and meets the challenges of the time. It is obvious that students’ language proficiency level, namely in Legalese (B2+ preferable), being a hard” skill, has a strong impact on the development of their career path. The practice of teaching Legalese at the Faculty of Law shows that today it is necessary not only to update the content of education, taking into account labor functions and realities, but also to verify the methods of language teaching. It is critical to work on an ongoing basis with highly specialized dictionaries and other sources to clarify definitions of legal terms, followed by the compilation of topic-based vocabularies, including electronic or online format. The combination of methods for creating mind maps and encoding and decoding information allows you to work out the desired terms in speech. Finally, the use of Internet resources contributes to the qualitative assimilation of highly professional vocabulary by future lawyers. This can potentially improve not only the quality of foreign language education, but also enhance the competitiveness of the university, through the implementation of interesting and relevant educational content by language departments.Key words: Legalese, English for specific purposes, students, teaching methods, university.

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Author: Morozova A.L.

Year: 2025

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-248-117

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