Use of Frame Modeling in Studying English
The existence of law as a social object and discipline is based on language and discourse, and the ability of future lawyers to understand and use the meta language of their profession is one of the main objectives of English for legal purposes instruction. Modern linguodidactics sets the task of developing effective pedagogical technologies that are consistent with the competence approach to education. The aim of the research is to consider the advantages of the cognitive approach to language instruction and frame modeling as an effective method for forming students’ terminological knowledge base, which lays the foundation for the formation of professional linguistic competence. The frame modeling method is based on the understanding of legal terminology as an extensive conceptual network, and the frame as abstraction of this network. Mental modeling is the basis of human knowledge; the frame modeling method increases the ability of students to process information and lays the foundation for their future progress in the formation of professional knowledge. The method is a link in joint activity of the teacher and students in the system of intersubject and interaspect activity and contributes to the understanding, visualization and obtaining contextual information necessary to create students’ terminological knowledge bases. Basing on the method approbation in the educational process, polls, an interview with students, questioning and personal observations of authors the method is estimated as positive as it helps trainees to acquire a number of long-term skills required in the legal profession.