Infopaket

PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

1 Semester

14

Students' achievement of such competencies, skills and abilities as: ability to use a wide range of lexical units of relevant branches of law in communication; speaking and listening skills aimed at expressing and understanding information depending on communicative intentions and situation (presentation, negotiations, debates, etc.); skills of reasoned written speech; skills of achieving semantic equivalence in the transfer of professional information from English into Ukrainian and vice versa.

Understands the main content of clear normative speech, including stories on familiar topics that are regularly encountered in everyday life and learning. Reads with a satisfactory level of understanding texts that set out the facts concerning his / her area of ​​interest and learning. Describes one of the many subjects of his / her interests quite freely, arranging his / her description in a linear sequence. He/she writes coherent texts on a variety of familiar topics within his area of ​​interest, linking a number of individual elements in a linear sequence.

The discipline acquaints students with the peculiarities of the legal systems of English-speaking countries, the peculiarities of legal writing in English, legal professions and systems of legal education in English-speaking countries. The student's ability to use English as effectively as possible in such areas of law as: Contract Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Company Law, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law, Real Property Law, International Law and Comparative Law. Considerable attention is paid to the peculiarities of legal English, in particular, the use of legal terms, Latin words, inherent in the legal speech of grammatical structures.

Клавдіч В.О., Саєнко Л.М., Заярна І.С., Кузьмінська Л.С., Самочорнова О.А., Кравець К.Ю., Ступенко М.Ю. Introduction to International Legal English. Навчально-методичний комплекс. – КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка, 2017. Brieger N. Test Your Professional English. Law. – Pearson Education Limited, 2003. Brown G. D. Professional English in Use. Law. – Cambridge University Press, 2007. Callanan H., Adwards. L. Absolute Legal English. – Cambridge ESOL ILEC, 2010. Haig R. Legal English. – Routledge-Cavendish, 2012. Krois-Lindner A. Introduction to International Legal English. – Cambridge University Press, 2009. Randon W. Check Your English Vocabulary for Law. – A & C Black, 2006. Volhina S., Yuzefovych K., Zaiarna I., Zhyhadlo O. Legal English through the Prism of the Law of Ukraine/ Zaiarna I, Trubchaninova T. (Eds.). – Odesa: Publishing house “Helvetica”, 2021. – 394 p.

"The Direct Method -In this method the teaching is done entirely in the target language. The learner is not allowed to use his or her mother tongue. Grammar rules are avoided and there is emphasis on good pronunciation. Audio-lingual - learning a language means acquiring habits. There is much practice of dialogues of every situations. New language is first heard and extensively drilled before being seen in its written form. Suggestopedia - a language can be acquired only when the learner is receptive and has no mental blocks. By various methods it is suggested to the student that the language is easy - and in this way the mental blocks to learning are removed. Communicative language teaching (CLT) - to enable the learner to communicate effectively and appropriately in the various situations she would be likely to find herself in. The content of CLT courses are functions such as inviting, suggesting, complaining or notions such as the expression of time, quantity, location.

Forms of assessment vary depending on the objectives and the aim of each topic. The selection of the types of a mid-term assessment is to the discretion of the teacher who is conducting practical classes; they enclose: an individual task report, a written task, a presentation or an individual project, a mid-term test, a final test. The teacher gives a certain amount of points earned through mid-term assessment, which gets fixed in the register of an academic progress. If students miss the class for valid reason, they can made it up in free from classes time (during teacher’s scheduled consultation hours) by participation in a discussion, performance of a writing task or by other forms of assessment. It is not allowed to make up the missed classes starting from 5 days prior examination period.

English, Ukrainian