An esp program for students of law
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The document discusses an overview of an 18-hour per week postgraduate course designed for Asian and South American students. The course focuses on developing reading, writing, listening and speaking skills for legal issues and includes no evaluations, but provides one-on-one feedback in writing. It is co-taught by a lawyer and EAP teacher with a language teacher and incorporates workshops, class visits, films and field trips. Key topics addressed are professionalism versus assumption, and values and behaviors of learners versus the legal profession and community.
An esp program for students of law
- 1. Christine Feak and Susan Reinhart An Overview By Suetyet Tam
- 2.  18 hrs insturction per week  Postgrad course design  Asian and South American students  Reading, writing, legal issues, listening, speaking,  No evaluation, one-to-one feedback in writing  Lawyer/ EAP teacher + language teacher  Workshops, Class visits, film, field trips
- 3.  Content knowledge (Professionalism vs Assumption)  Values and behaviour (Learners vs profession) (Learners vs community) - structure – LAW – passive? Assertive? What forms & functions of language is accepted  Reading, writing, speaking and listening genres for law - How much should we emphasized given that is it a postgrad course? - What should we cover? Legal practice has various branches – criminal, civil, marital