SPIRITUAL AND MORAL TRAINING AND LANGUAGE LEARNING OF FUTURE LAWYERS.

Voyachek O.

Golovushkina M.

Penza State University, Russia

Morality of a legal profession member gains in importance in our time. During the last years a tornado of reforms has lifted the legal system off its base and it is still flying through the air. Major changes have taken place to our laws. New laws are developing every day. In this respect the problem of future lawyers’ moral training is of great importance. This article draws attention to the possibilities of future lawyers’ moral training by means of foreign language for forming modern Russian social and constitutional state.

The authors of the article define the main problem of their investigation. It is to reveal the possibilities of moral training by means of foreign language; to draw colleagues’ attention to the problem of future lawyers’ moral training by means of a foreign language. Pedagogical and linguistic approaches and methods are enumerated; they can help the authors to analyze this problem from different points and solve a given problem.

Special attention is paid to the necessity of moral problems’ correct solving by future lawyers themselves. The lack of lawyers’ moral qualities directly means the lack of legality in a state where they work.

Currency of addressing to the problem of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training is specified by a valued situation in a modern Russian society. Morality of a legal profession member gains in importance in our time. The lack of lawyer’s moral qualities directly means the lack of legality in a state where he works. Lawyers are often in a situation of a moral choice, that’s why they should have not only professional knowledge and skills but also personal qualities. And future lawyers should be able to use these qualities in order to cope with difficulties appearing during the course of work.

The fundamental aim of our research is to work out a methodological base of spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language; to draw our colleagues’ attention to the problem of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language; to explore the experience and traditions of spiritual and moral training in institutions of higher education in Russia in the second of half of the XIX and at the turn of the XX century. The decision of this aim is connected with the development of the student’s spiritual and moral identity intended for forming of personal emotional motivation, for "soul development" as a center of spiritual life (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi).

It is spiritual and moral training that we connect with the possibility of personal and social development. The analysis of theoretical investigations and English teachers’ practical experience gave us the possibility to reveal the contradiction between the necessity of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training and the insufficient readiness of foreign language studying possibilities. Our aim is to raise the moral level of future legal profession members.

Interdisciplinary character of investigation of the spiritual and moral training problem and of the creative usage ways of prerevolutionary traditions and experience suggests the application of pedagogical, linguistic and psychological approaches and methods of research. The combination of these approaches and methods gives us the possibility to study this many sided problem and to solve fundamental problem of our investigation

The aim of our research is to reveal the possibilities of spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language; to draw colleagues’ attention to the problem of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language; to explore the experience and traditions of spiritual and moral training in institutions of higher education in Russia in the second of half of the XIX and at the turn of the XX century. The project is thought for a period of one year, during this year we plan to do different kinds of work.

The problem of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language is not an absolutely new one. Many famous philosophers and teachers of the past paid much attention to spiritual and moral training through the culture and the language, not only through the native but also through the foreign ones.

We plan to write down several scientific articles connected with the theme of our investigation, participate in scientific conferences, draw our colleagues’ attention to this problem; search for material for writing   the monograph on the problem of investigation. The aim of this monograph is to draw society’s attention to the problem of future lawyers’ spiritual and moral training by means of foreign language, make sure future lawyers that moral laws play a great role in their professional life, give proof of the leading role of conscience as a main quality of a future lawyer.

Any young person who wants to become a lawyer should understand how laws affect so many different aspects of our lives and our country as a whole. Our laws are vital to us. Without laws there is no hope for our society and there is no chance for us to progress. So, personal moral qualities of future lawyers in an exciting and restless time in development of our laws prove to be very valuable. And it is hard to overestimate the role of foreign language in a training process.