The role of informal teaching the German language for students of the law institute of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

The author of the article highlights the formal and informal aspects of learning the German language in the process of law students’ special language competences training and certification at the Foreign Languages Department of the Institute of Law, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. The article gives examples of the use of non-formal education component, methods and technologies of which allow students to simulate the formation of individual routes of Reference for the German language. Application of the Language Portfolio Technology demonstrates the possibility of self-monitoring of the learning process, students learn German not only in the period of their study at the university, but also throughout their professional activity, documenting the achieved language level (from A1 to C1), the formulation of individual goals, statement of their successful implementation, using descriptors of checklists of self-assessment and the results of tests after each passed educational-methodical complex.