Impact of project-based learning on the development of communicative competence of future police officers
Project-based learning is a means of developing a project- based mode of interaction with the world, which explains the great interest on the part of the pedagogical community in the use of the project method in teaching. The purpose of the study was to analyze and summarize the impact of project activities on the development of communication skills of future police officers. Taking into account the importance of communicative competence in the activities of police officers, the experience of using the project method in the process of foreign-language training of students of St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Interior of Russia was generalized. The system of communicative proficiency of students consists of the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for interpersonal communication. The project method helps to master the necessary set of means and types of communication and the ability to build communication in accordance with one’s goals, achieving the maximum efficiency of communicative actions. The study proves the rationale for the use of the project method as an effective means for developing and improving the communicative competence of cadets.