Teaching persuasiveness in legal English

Abstract

Foreword This report describes an ESP teaching course in Legal English (LE) taught at the Faculty of Law at the University of Nis, Serbia, as a two-term obligatory course in a Bachelor’s programme or as an elective course at Master’s level. Its main objective is to empower law students with the professional linguistic skills to achieve persuasiveness and critical thinking required in a cross-cultural legal context. Although the report details the different steps of the course as well as asses...