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Learning to Teach Legal English Teachers’ Professional Development
in ELP Context
Dr Aleksandra Ł[email protected]
(…) teachers develop as professionals,
only if they choose to (…)
K. Bailey, A. Curtis, D. Nunan, Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source, Heinle and Heinle, 2001
Legal English Experience: 3-10 years
Path to Legal English
General EnglishBusiness Englishuniversity lecturertranslating backgroundFORCEDASKED
self-studyreading bookswriting a textbookdeveloping teaching materialspost-graduate course in legal and court translating
Legal English course
Conferences
In-service trainings in a language school
Workshops by publishers
PhD seminars
Content knowledge
Teaching English for law
Textbooks
Exam trainings
Funding for courses, books, conferences
How did you feel?
Professional Development
SELF-STUDY
Legal English course at British CouncilMA in English Philologypost-graduate studies in Public International Law (University of Warsaw); PhD studies in Public International Law Teaching English for Law at University of EdinburghIn-service trainings (private schools)EULETA forumILE ConferencesEuro Invest trainingsEMAS trainings
Self-development self-initiatives
Extensive reading: legal textbooks websites
Talking to lawyersTranslatingDoing all the tasks planned for the class
Worth recommending?Talking to lawyers
Teaching the course
Experimenting with materials and techniques
Self-study
Peer-teaching
Studying academic textbooks
Translating and comparing with the model
Legal English Teacher Ideal
• Half teacher – half lawyer
• Half teacher – half translator
• Curious knowledge seeker, lifelong student
• Bilingual or proficient user of English
• Focused on detail
• Hard-working, ambitious, stress resistant
• Brave, open, stubborn
Business English
• closer to general English• more common sense,
knowledge• more intuitive• more international• easier• no archaic grammar and
vocabulary• more focus on
communication
Legal English
• much more demanding, misleading, precise
• requires more content knowledge
• no „exciting” materials• scarcity of books• the teacher has to become
the materials writer• much more focus on the
reading skill• much more preparation
VS
Conclusions• Legal English teachers’ professional development is a D-I-Y
activity• teachers develop as professionals only if they choose to• teachers are responsible for the development of their
competences• teachers’ development is generated through personal
reading, reflection and self-education• teaching institutions rarely provide opportunities for
teachers’ professional educatiopn and growth• „the self” is the best and only source of pursuing professional
development
Thank you for your attention
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