Application of electronic cases in teaching a foreign language to students majoring in Law and Economics: methodological and pedagogical aspects

Abstract

The processes of globalization that have swept the whole world, including Russia, make the modern labor market extremely mobile. It poses a number of tasks for Russian higher school to train highly competent professionals who are fluent in foreign languages. Among many newest pedagogical technologies, the case-study method is viewed as promising and perspective. It appeared at the end of the 19th century in the USA, but became widespread in our country only at the turn of the 20-21 centuries. The analysis of the existing definitions of this concept allowed the authors to formulate their own definition of the term electronic case, which is interpreted as a real situation prepared and loaded by the teacher into the digital learning environment of the university for subsequent comprehensive analysis and finding alternatives to its solution based on group discussions. Along with this, the authors managed to develop methodological requirements for educational electronic cases implemented at foreign language lessons at a university, to determine the range of key skills and abilities formed by the case method, to identify the advantages and disadvantages of public and non-public presentation of the case solution.