Naslov
Raising pragmatic awareness in English for Legal Purposes Courses

Autori
Lukica, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
19th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes: Languages for Special Purposes in Multilingual, Transcultural World

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 08.07.2013. - 10.07.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
pragmatic awareness; English for Legal Purposes

Sažetak
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

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

POVEZANOST RADA