Game as a specially organized educational and cognitive activity for teaching of professional foreign language communication to chiefs of the internal affairs bodies
The article describes the peculiarities of the organization and conducting gaming activities aimed at successful teaching of professional foreign language communication to chiefs of the internal affairs bodies. A game is considered as a specially organized educational and cognitive activity for teaching of professional foreign language communication to chiefs of the internal affairs bodies. The author states that the participants of gaming activities are better able to absorb a large amount of information and form foreign language communication skills they need in real life. A training game allows them to overcome psychological barriers of foreign language learning, to develop abstract thinking and skills of interpersonal communication, to realize their creative potential. Another advantage of game training is that it is based on the discussion of professionally significant problems, which motivate the cognitive interest of chiefs of the internal affairs bodies. Many researchers pay attention to the fact that the description of the theoretical foundations of the use of forms of gaming activities prevail over the specific description of a game and organization of training activities of the participants of a gameplay. In this connection, the article provides a thorough analysis of the content characteristics of particular communicative, role-play and business games developed by the author for the improvement of foreign language skills of chiefs of the internal affairs bodies. The author also focuses attention on the elaboration of methodological and practical advice on the preparation, organization and analysis of these game forms. The article describes the effectiveness of the pedagogical gaming technique applied at the Academy of Management of the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation as it has resulted in positive dynamics of the development of foreign language competence of chiefs of the internal affairs bodies: increasing volume of foreign-language statements, more confidence in the choice of foreign language means of expression of a communicative intent, a higher degree of initiative in their verbal behavior.