LEGAL ENGLISH. A SURVEY OF CURRENT APPROACHES
LEGAL ENGLISH. A SURVEY OF CURRENT APPROACHES

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores several textbooks on legal English that address a number of language and communication needs of students and employees in the legal field with the aim of finding similarities and differences in their teaching and learning approaches. The emphasis lies on revealing aspects relevant to any ESP educational approach such as: the global design, the amount of specific professional content requested, communication driven-syllabi and skills, self-study. Overall, the research perspective adopted is based on comparing underpinning principles of introducing and presenting the most useful and relevant aspects of the teaching/learning process. The article is also meant to provide significant teacher support in choosing a relevant textbook in the legal English environment that would engage the learners' interest.

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