Author(s):
- Vasylyshyna Nataliia Maksymivna, ORCID: 0000-0002-0003-9998
- Honcharenko-Zakrevska Nataliia Valeriivna, ORCID: 0000-0002-4393-9750
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2307-9770.2024.12.03.01
Paper Language: ENG
Abstract
Due to globalization, the expansion of Ukrainian's economic links with other nations, and the link with the expansion of strengthening at a good level, there is a growing demand for legal English teachers among professionals who speak the language. English teachers ought to assist in the development of abilities that will make law students more marketable. The method of teaching legal English is intricate but fascinating. Remember that there are a number of contemporary and interactive approaches to teaching this sublanguage. For legal English instruction to be both effective and efficient, students must use them in the classroom. Various activities of these methods are used by teachers with the aim of teaching in deeper perspective. The aim of this paper is to present the challenges in teaching legal English to nonnative students majoring for the specialty 293 “International Law” and to offer several suggestions in the form of complex of nine various communicative tasks for improving the methods of assessment. English for Specific Purposes has increasingly developed in the last decades and there is no argue that English has become lingua franca. Being the language of international legal practice, English is an important part of a legal training program and, in order to face the challenges of the labor market in the future, students must be able to overcome the problems due to the differences between legal systems and languages. Teaching English for Specific Purposes is a never-ending process considering that, in order to achieve proficiency, constant training is needed. The outcomes of the on-going paper have revealed that the complex of nine interrelated tasks will be able to improve the knowledge of legal English of university students majoring for the specialty 293 “International Law”.
Keywords
Bachelor degree students, international law, original articles, videos, foreign language, legal glossary, higher education, presentations
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