A scaffolded speaking and writing ELP course for commercial lawyers: An action research case study from an undergraduate law school in Istanbul

IF 3.1 1区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI:10.1016/j.jeap.2024.101380

Anthony Townley

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Abstract

The author used action research to implement significant changes to an English for Specific Legal Purposes (ELP) course at a private university in Istanbul to meet the professional discourse needs of Turkish law students. The previous syllabus was focused on American Supreme Court case reports; however most of the students would mainly use English to advise on contracts in commercial law practice. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and genre analytical methodologies were used to develop pedagogy for the new syllabus, which was scaffolded so that students began learning the functional organization and lexico-grammatical properties of a contract before participating in an oral advice role play activity and writing a letter of advice about it to a hypothetical client. In conjunction with discussion of the pedagogical rationales for syllabus design and instructional activities, observations of student participation in the oral advice activity and feedback on a student example of the letter assessment are presented to critically reflect on the utility of this ELP course designed to help undergraduate law students to discursively function as lawyers, especially those learners from non-English speaking backgrounds, who need to communicate in English as the primary lingua franca for international legal practice.

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为商业律师开设的支架式口语和写作英语学习课程：伊斯坦布尔一所本科法学院的行动研究案例分析

作者利用行动研究对伊斯坦布尔一所私立大学的特定法律用途英语（ELP）课程进行了重大改革，以满足土耳其法律专业学生的专业话语需求。以前的教学大纲侧重于美国最高法院的案例报告，但大多数学生主要使用英语就商业法律实践中的合同提出建议。新教学大纲采用了内容与语言整合学习（CLIL）和体裁分析方法来制定教学法，并为教学大纲设置了脚手架，使学生在参加口头建议角色扮演活动和为假定客户撰写相关建议信之前，就开始学习合同的功能组织和词汇语法特性。在讨论教学大纲设计和教学活动的教学理论依据的同时，还介绍了对学生参与口头建议活动的观察以及对学生信件评估示例的反馈，以批判性地反思这门英语语言教学法课程的实用性，该课程旨在帮助法学本科生，尤其是那些来自非英语背景的学习者，在国际法律实践中需要用英语作为主要通用语言进行交流，从而发挥律师的话语功能。

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Multiple-

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6.60

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13.30%

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审稿时长

57 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of English for Academic Purposes provides a forum for the dissemination of information and views which enables practitioners of and researchers in EAP to keep current with developments in their field and to contribute to its continued updating. JEAP publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges in the linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic description of English as it occurs in the contexts of academic study and scholarly exchange itself.