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Academic Achievement Series

Academic Achievement Series. Legal English and Introductory Citation Fall 2017. Today’s Objectives. English Check In American Legal English Short Citation Forms Putting it all together. Where are you with English? Active stress…?. Tired stress…. Productive Positive Stress.

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Academic Achievement Series

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  1. Academic Achievement Series Legal English and Introductory Citation Fall 2017

  2. Today’s Objectives • English Check In • American Legal English • Short Citation Forms • Putting it all together

  3. Where are you with English? Active stress…?

  4. Tired stress…

  5. Productive Positive Stress

  6. Zen like Calm….

  7. Where are you?

  8. Our task… • Cultivate awareness and identify current status • Provide concrete strategies to improve Legal English for interim period • Cultivate confidence that language will come • Throwing in citation because we can…

  9. Background Language acquisition in the abstract…

  10. Levels of English Language Acquisition

  11. Levels of English Language Acquisition • Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills • Day-to-day language needed to interact socially with other people • Not demanding cognitively • Not specialized– often context driven • Usually develops within six months to two years after arrival in the U.S. • Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency • CALP refers to formal academic learning • Includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing about subject area content material • Not content driven • Includes skills such as comparing, classifying, synthesizing, evaluating, and inferring

  12. CALP will come

  13. But you still have to perform now. Interim steps to advance CALP proficiency

  14. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Immerse yourself into the language more fully • Speak English socially with native English speakers. • Conversation Partner Program; library, professors, OGIP staff, FELLOW students (organizations), stores/restaurants • Ask them to correct you!

  15. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Talk to yourself. • 10-20 minutes/day • Describe what you see • Small notebook or phone- write word down you don’t know • Work on fluency- not perfection

  16. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Listen • Lost art in many cultures • Focus on what person is saying- not what you will respond • Soak in language

  17. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Identify areas of vocabulary strategically • Over 25% of the English language is covered by 9 words • And, be, have, it, of, the, to, will and you • Identify frequently used words- keep an ongoing journal • Look it up- Blacks Law Dictionary, Dr. Google • Perfection is the enemy of the good--- just do it.

  18. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Incorporate English into your study habits • Take notes in margins of book in English • Write briefs in English • Outline in English

  19. Concrete Steps to advance to CALP proficiency • Make mistakes.

  20. Common Legal Terms Time to play JEOPARDY! https://jeopardylabs.com/play/legal-english5

  21. Bottom Line….

  22. Switching Gears….

  23. Residual Citation Issues • Refresher from Orientation • Basic citation form • Introduction to short citation forms

  24. Basic Case Citation • Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). • Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 440-42 (1966) • Baxter v. Hamilton, 864 N.E.2d 234, 238 (Mass. 2003).

  25. Short Citation Form • Rule 10.9 and Rule 4 • Elements of a short citation form Miranda, 384 U.S. at 436. • Use “Id.” when possible • If case appeared in immediately preceding citation which included only that case, use id.

  26. Short Citation Form • Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). • No intervening case– how cite? • Id. • No intervening case- cite to page 445. • Id., at 445. • Cite to same page? • Id. • Cite to same case, different page (i.e., pg 448) - no intervening cite? • Id., at 448.

  27. Insert Intervening Cite • Baxter v. Hamilton, 864 N.E.2d 234, 238 (Mass. 2003). • Same case, no intervening cite- page 240 • Id., at 240. • Now you want to cite Miranda at page 440.. How to do it? • Full cite? • Miranda, 384 U.S. at 440. • Now you want to cite Baxter at page 242- How to do it?– can you use Id.? • Baxter, 864 N.E.2d at 242.

  28. Remember the citation mantra…. • Doing is better than not doing. • If you cite something badly, you’ll learn to do it better.

  29. Just for good measure… • READ YOUR FRIDAY REMINDER!

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