The article deals with the problem of teaching English in cadets of the first year of the “Psychology” specialty at the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service, that is positioned as foreign language education. The latter is considered in terms of formation of a new intercultural consciousness in language users as the ability to see themselves and their interlocutor as speakers of certain cultures, ready to understand a different way of life and thinking, to respect the right to cultural “otherness”, to be tolerant to values and behavioral patterns of another culture, counteract stereotypes and prejudices, rethink one’s own cultural baggage. The paradigm of modern foreign language education is built on the principle of cultures dialogue; critical attitude to established statements; open exchange of ideas based on mutual understanding and respect for cultural diversity. A vision of modern foreign language classes as a source of multicultural information is formulated. The methodical strategies of foreign language learning, which will contribute to the effective formation of cadets’ professional communicative competence and optimize the process of learning a foreign language in groups with different levels of speech preparation, have been defined and substantiated. Psychological and pedagogical and methodical literature on the researched topic is studied and analyzed; empirical methods are applied: purposeful observation of the educational process; interviewing and comparing. Methodical strategies for organizing the work of the first-year cadets majoring in “Psychology” of the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service on the basis of a differentiated approach are proposed.

Key words: the English language, cadets of the first year of study, specialty “Psychology”, methodical development, foreign language education.

References

1. Rajathurai Nishanthi (2018), “The importance of learning English in today world”, International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, Volume 3, Issue 1, No. 5, рр. 871–874. https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd19061
2. Misechko, O. Ye. (2018), “Intercultural paradigm of foreign language education: what lies in the details?”, Bulletin of the Kyiv National Linguistic University, 29, рр. 62–71.
3. Lytvyn, S., Perminova, V. and Sikaliuk, A. (2021), “Teaching a foreign language to students of higher education in groups of different levels”, Bulletin of the Chernihiv Collegium National University named after T.G. Shevchenko, 14–15 (170–171), рр. 191–195.
4. Nabok, A. and Borysenko, I. (2022), “Features of the content of the discipline “Foreign language of professional direction” for the training of specialists of the second level of education (on the example of the specialty “Psychology”)”, Scientific Herald of Sivershchyna. Series: Education, No. 1 (8), рр. 131–140. https://doi.org/10.32755/sjeducation.2022.01.131
5. Yukhymchuk, S. (2006), “Going to the cinema”, English, No. 46 (335), рр. 3–4.
6. Hill, L. A. (1977), “Elementary Stories for Reproduction”, Oxford University Press, No. 196, рр. 64.
7. We learn English through films, available at: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=LLHaR5JHYJI (accessed at 23 July 2023).