Addressing the Needs of Lawyers in Legal English: A Comparative Study in Four European Union Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/article/view/14305" target="_blank" >https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/article/view/14305</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.2018.33.3" target="_blank" >10.14746/cl.2018.33.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Addressing the Needs of Lawyers in Legal English: A Comparative Study in Four European Union Countries

Original language description

The paper reports on a survey into the linguistic needs of law professionals in four European countries, with the aim of identifying their views on the importance and their use of foreign language skills as well as their preferences for ELP course content. The data, obtained from a questionnaire survey of 536 legal professionals from Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Germany, show that while the respondents agree on many of the major points, there are also some differences conditioned by the respondents’ age and the specific tasks they perform in the legal profession. The article argues that these variables have to be taken into consideration in the LSP context because they determine some of the specific needs that need to be addressed in Legal English instruction. It is suggested that the findings about the lawyers’ self-perceived importance and preferred styles of learning are highly relevant for LSP practitioners, particularly when designing Legal English programmes and testing materials.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Comparative Legilinguistics: International Journal for Legal Communication

ISSN

2080-5926

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

33

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

57-88

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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