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Learning to Teach Legal English Teachers’ P rofessional D evelopment in ELP C ontext

Learning to Teach Legal English Teachers’ P rofessional D evelopment in ELP C ontext. Dr Aleksandra Łuczak luczak@luczak.edu.pl. (…) teachers develop as professionals, only if they choose to (…)

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Learning to Teach Legal English Teachers’ P rofessional D evelopment in ELP C ontext

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  1. Learning to Teach Legal English Teachers’ ProfessionalDevelopment in ELP Context Dr Aleksandra Łuczak luczak@luczak.edu.pl

  2. (…) 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

  3. ResearchSample

  4. Legal English Experience: 3-10 years

  5. Path to Legal English • General English • Business English • university lecturer • translating background • FORCED • ASKED • self-study • reading books • writing a textbook • developing teaching materials • post-graduate course in legal and court translating

  6. Legal English course Conferences In-service trainings in a language school Workshops by publishers PhDseminars Contentknowledge TeachingEnglish for law Textbooks Examtrainings Funding for courses, books, conferences

  7. Howdidyoufeel?

  8. Whenconfidencecomes… Between6 monthsand 5 years 3 respondentssaidNEVER

  9. Professional Development

  10. Professional Development SELF-STUDY • Legal Englishcourseat British Council • MA inEnglishPhilology • post-graduate studies in Public International Law (University of Warsaw); • PhD studies in Public International Law • TeachingEnglish for Law atUniversity of Edinburgh • In-service trainings (privateschools) • EULETA forum • ILE Conferences • Euro Invest trainings • EMAS trainings

  11. Self-developmentself-initiatives • Extensivereading: • legal textbooks • websites • Talking to lawyers • Translating • Doingallthetasksplanned for theclass

  12. Worth recommending? • Talking to lawyers • Teachingthecourse • Experimentingwith materials and techniques • Self-study • Peer-teaching • Studyingacademictextbooks • Translating and comparingwiththe model

  13. Legal EnglishTeacherIdeal • Halfteacher – halflawyer • Halfteacher – half translator • Curiousknowledgeseeker, lifelong student • Bilingualorproficientuser of English • Focused on detail • Hard-working, ambitious, stressresistant • Brave, open, stubborn

  14. VS Business English Legal English much moredemanding, misleading, precise requiresmorecontentknowledge no „exciting” materials scarcity of books theteacherhas to becomethe materials writer much morefocus on thereadingskill much morepreparation • closer to general English • morecommonsense, knowledge • moreintuitive • more international • easier • no archaicgrammar and vocabulary • morefocus on communication

  15. Legal EnglishVisionary

  16. Professional Identity

  17. Wouldyoulike to quit?

  18. Conclusions • Legal Englishteachers’ professional development is a D-I-Yactivity • teachersdevelop as professionalsonlyiftheychoose to • teachersareresponsible for the development of theircompetences • teachers’ development is generated through personal reading, reflection and self-education • teachinginstitutionsrarelyprovideopportunities for teachers’ professionaleducatiopn and growth • „theself” isthebest and onlysource of pursuingprofessional development

  19. luczak@luczak.edu.pl Thankyou for yourattention www.luczak.edu.pl www.aleksandraluczak.edublogs.pl

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