Curriculum Development for Legal English Programs

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5437-5
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten

This book provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in designing and implementing courses of English for Legal Purposes. Each chapter highlights a different aspect of the curriculum development process, including syllabus design, taking into account the special role of needs analysis, materials development, and the question of assessing and testing languages for special purposes. In addition, the book provides a brief outline of key concepts in the methodology of English for Specific Purposes, in the context of Legal English in particular. Factors such as the specificity of legal discourse, the roles of ESP teachers, subject-knowledge dilemma, cooperative teaching or language issues are taken into account. The book concludes with a model syllabus for a course of English for Legal Purposes developed by the author as the outcome of a three-year action research programme conducted at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bialystok, Poland.

The book is informative and reader-friendly, and will serve as a resource and reference book for anybody involved and interested in teaching or researching into English for Legal Purposes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sierocka, Halina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fachsprachen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Sierocka, Halina
Halina Sierocka is an Assistant Professor at the Bialystok Legal English Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. Her research areas lie in legal discourse, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and team teaching. She is the author of a number of articles and reviews on teaching English for Specific Purposes and English for Legal Purposes, and is also the author of the Legal English Textbook for Law Students, Legal English – Niezbednik przyszlego prawnika, which received the European Language Label 2013 award granted to the most innovative language learning projects in each EU country every year.

Halina Sierocka is an Assistant Professor at the Bialystok Legal English Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. Her research areas lie in legal discourse, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and team teaching. She is the author of a number of articles and reviews on teaching English for Specific Purposes and English for Legal Purposes, and is also the author of the Legal English Textbook for Law Students, Legal English – Niezbednik przyszlego prawnika, which received the European Language Label 2013 award granted to the most innovative language learning projects in each EU country every year.