From Classroom to Courtroom: Preparing legal English students for the real world
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Právní jazyk - od teorie k praxi (Legal Language - from Theory to Practice) |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | needs analysis; legal English; English for Specific Purposes; ESP |
| Description | The paper reports on the results of a needs analysis survey carried out among former graduates of the Faculty of Law with the aim of determining relevant current and future needs of law students and graduates concerning their English language instruction. The outcomes of the research will be used in the innovation of language courses that is currently underway at the Language Centre of Masaryk University as part of the “Impact” project. Apart from reporting the results of the survey, which will affect the redesign of the syllabus for course “English for Students of Law”, the paper argues that there is a need for what can be termed “transferred needs analysis” whereby the target needs of students in the ESP classroom are specified not by the actual students but by former graduates whose “in-service” perspective is based on their actual working experience. |