Law School Students’ Skill Development in the Context of Multimedia Presentations
Natalia Yushkova, The Urals State Law University (Russian Federation)
Abstract
Specifics of juridical profession results in directivity of future lawyers’ education to the correct perception of information, its analysis, correct information transfer, and development of skills needed to publicly present the results of their activity. The Federal educational standards reflect this directivity.
The speech-cogitative, communicative and logical-rhetorical competencies are the basis for the professional competencies development of law school students. That is why the complex study assignments, such as multimedia presentations with discussion and following evaluation in line with certain criteria, has important educational capability. These assignments facilitate the processes of perception and revision of various texts including lexicography sources, and production of comprehensive writing and oral texts, those can help to make complex description of student’s linguistic personality.
An important tutorial goal is to choose the effective educational technologies that help develop students’ abilities to work with text along with the management of conditions that provide the link between the training situations and moral values of future lawyers.
The example of the realization of this tutorial idea is an experience of formation a multimedia law encyclopedia Law Values by the students of Ural State Law University. This encyclopedia includes materials, that illustrate the critical concepts, important to the determination of lawyers’ values, such as a state, law, rights, justice, freedom etc.
Another important aspect of studies is the technology of preparation of multimedia presentations that results in technical requirements (e.g. number and quality of slides), advisability of multimedia effects, choice of style. The technical aspect of this work assumes skills needed to take into account, the subject of the message, character of the communicative situation, specifics of audio and visual perception of the material by the audience.
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professional competencies, linguistic personality, multimedia presentations, evaluation, problem situation analysis, values.
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