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Raising pragmatic awareness in English for Legal Purposes Courses

This paper will present the results of a research carried out among lawyers taking ELP courses as part of their lifelong education. Two groups of participants took part in the research, both heterogeneous with respect to age and place of work as well as general English knowledge and pragmatic awareness in L1 (Croatian) and L2 (English) which were tested at the beginning of the course. The approach to teaching the experimental group was contrastive in order to raise awareness of the differences between two languages, two cultures and two legal systems and this group received explicit instruction in language, culture and law. The teaching in the control group focused exclusively on the target language, culture and legal system and they received no explicit instruction. The purpose of the research is to investigate the effectiveness of the contrastive approach and explicit teaching method in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in ELP courses and discuss avenues for further research

pragmatic awareness; English for Legal Purposes

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