The article deals with defining the role of modern technologies in training future specialists in the system of higher education. The article explores the use of information and communication technologies in the classroom and describes the means of forming professional communicative competence. Distance education is considered to be one of the most popular in the organization of educational process in modern conditions. Particular attention in the article is paid to the tools that are used during this form of education; they require comprehensive development. The training different skills and thus individual mastering of different actions algorithms are realized by educational computer programs. Further development of distance education systems involves ensuring maximum interactivity. Studying becomes complete only when the imitation of real communication with the teacher is achieved. The teacher's activity is given a significant place in distance education technologies. The task of a teacher is to promote the fullest immersion of students into the educational environment, the formation of independent cognition skills and intellectual growth, readiness to solve non-standard tasks and situations. The teacher should promote the activation of students’ cognitive activity. It is necessary to use different types of electronic communications combinations, which allow to compensate for the lack of personal contact through virtual communication. However, the use of only distance education technologies in the academic process deprives students of the opportunity to communicate live with the teacher and with each other, which does not contribute to the formation of the necessary communicative competence. One of the ways to solve this problem can be blended learning, i.e. a justified and harmonious combination of face-to-face and distance education technologies. This combination will preserve the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages of certain technologies.

This paper focuses on the development of foreign language communicative competence of students studying law. The research used different methods to study how students studying law can improve their ability to communicate in a foreign language. There was looked at existing research and did a survey to understand more about how students can improve their language skills. The results of the study reveal the main directions of scientific developments on issues related to the formation of foreign language communicative competence of students of law specialties. The priority of development, assessment of components, and the procedure of this process from a practical point of view have been clarified. The paper emphasizes the importance of foreign language communicative competence in the field of law and highlights the challenges that students face in acquiring these skills.

The article deals with the analysis of the process of forming terminological units by means of lexis de-symbolization. The functioning of this way and its meaning for forming legal terminology is examined here. The lexical base of analysis is formed with the complex of lexis of the German legal terminological system. The objective of the current research is a multifaceted study and description of the semantic foundations of lexical units of law. The requirement to implement this objective has determined the need to solve the following research task: to investigate the process of de-symbolization of words, i. e. the transformation of words into terminological units primarily through the restoration of their semantic foundations (as exemplified by a number of German lexemes). The object of the research is the lexicon of the domain of the legal terminology of the said language. The subject of the research is the formation of legal terms as a result of the process of de-symbolization of the respective words (notions). The material involved in the study was considered from the standpoint of a systematic approach. In order to obtain objective data when determining the semantic foundations of terminological units of law, the descriptive method and the comparative one were used, as well as the method of semantic bundles (series). Examining the process of de-symbolization of lexical units makes it possible to draw the conclusion that the functioning of words in the context of certain semantic parameters determines the change in the content of those words' symbolic foundations. The words are used in a narrower sense, since they have become terms.