Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация. 2014. № 3 ТЕОРИЯ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ P.J. Mitchell, M.A. Shevchenko TEACHING MILITARY LINGUISTS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BRITISH ARMY The article examines the British Army’s experience of teaching military linguists. <...> A review is made of the history of establishing, developing and perfecting schools, methods and means of training military linguists. <...> Key words: foreign language teaching, foreign military vocabulary, military linguist, military interpreter, teaching methods, British Army. <...> Ключевые слова: обучение иностранному языку, иностранная военная лексика, военный лингвист, военный переводчик, методика преподавания, сухопутные войска Великобритании. <...> Modern military operations have demonstrated the existence of problems of language, cross-cultural communication and, therefore, a great need in military linguists to aid in overcoming these problems1. <...> Crossey notes that language capability is of particular importance in peace-support operations where the absence of effective communication may lead to mistakes, which might, in a worst-case scenario, result in casualties2. <...> With increasing multinational cooperation in defence, and the carrying Mitchell Peter J. — ст. преподаватель, зам. декана по международным связям факультета иностранных языков Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета; e-mail: peter_mitchell@mail.ru Шевченко Михаил Александрович — подполковник, начальник цикла, ст. преподаватель учебного военного центра Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета; e-mail: sheffcomms@mail.ru 1 Languages at War: Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict / Ed. by H. Footitt, M. Kelly. <...> Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building / Ed. by H. Footitt, M. Kelly. <...> Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; Interpreting the Peace: Peace Operations, Conflict and Language in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Ed. by M. Kelly, C. Baker. <...> Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 2 Crossey M. Improving Linguistic Interoperability // NATO Review (Summer). 2005. <...> URL: http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2005/issue2/english/art4.html (last accessed: 22.01.2013). 141 out of operations with military personnel drawn from a wide range of countries and language backgrounds, this need is unlikely to decrease. <...> We see, therefore, an emerging picture of the desirability of having military linguists with a foreign language capability for the conducting of a multitude <...>