Role-playing games as a necessary method of formation of communicative competence among cadets

This article is devoted to the description of methods which are effective for communicative competence formation among the cadets of the departmental institutes of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. In the article the definition of the communicative competence is revealed, methods that can improve the level of the competence are distinguished. The author pays much attention to the active teaching methods giving their definition. In the article the classification of the active teaching methods used at the lessons is given. The necessity of using active teaching methods in all types of training activity is proved paying great attention to practicability of role-playing games at the lessons. The author offers her own algorithm of the role-playing game given concrete examples. In the article the advantages and disadvantages that can be faced with in the process of role-playing gamming at the lesson are also established.