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| LANG0051-1 | Level A English
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| Duration : | 60h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Caroline Hougardy, ISLV |
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| Language : | Langue anglaise |
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| Course contents : | This English course is intended for first-year law students and aims at improving their command of legal English in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. |
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| Course objective : | The main aims of this course are
- to improve the students' ability to read and understand legal texts such as legal periodicals, commercial legislation, legal correspondance and other commercial law documents.
- to increase their comprehension of spoken English when it is used to speak about legal topics in meetings, presentations, interviews, discussions, etc.
- to strengthen their speaking skills and to enable them to engage more effectively in a range of speaking situations typical of legal practice, such as client interviews, discussions with colleagues and contract negotiations.
- to provide them with the tools necessary to write common legal text types in English, such as letters or memoranda.
Besides, this course also aims at encouraging the students to further prepare for the International Legal English Certificate by familiarising them with the kinds of tasks they would encounter on the ILEC examination. |
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| Prerequisites : | The class is taught in English from the start and is not meant for beginners. Students should ideally have reached level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages before the start of the class. |
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| Organization : | This 60-hour course is taught all year round, 2 hours a week.
Students will make sure to prepare actively at home the exercises from the book as indicated by the teacher on a weekly basis to be able to keep up with the fast pace of the class.
Listening skills will be exercised at home thanks to the CD provided with the book and in accordance with a preestablished schedule. In the same way, students will be expected to revise their basic English grammar on their own. Practical details will be specified at the beginning of the class. |
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| Written notes : | The following coursebook will be used in class:
- Krois-Lindner, Amy. International Legal English. Cambridge, Cambrige University Press, 2006.
It's been arranged for a bookstore to come and sell the books at a reasonable price towards the start of the academic year. Dates and rooms will be posted on the notice board. |
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| Assessment : | The final exam will be twofold as it will be made up of a written and an oral part.
The written part will be composed of true or false and multiple-choice questions about reading comprehension, grammar and about the vocabulary seen in class.
The oral part will assess not only the students' listening comprehension and speaking, but also their use of the vocabulary and language functions exercised in class as well as the comprehension of texts from the course book. |
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| Contacts : | Teachers:
Frederic DEPAS (F.Depas@ulg.ac.be)
Doris DE LAET (D.DeLaet@ulg.ac.be)
Kevin HEYERES (K.Heyeres@ulg.ac.be(kevinheyeres@hotmail.com))
Caroline IZEGRAR-HOUGARDY
(C.Hougardy@ulg.ac.be)
(coordinator) |
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| Remarks : | Students are advised to get hold of the Grammaire Anglaise de Base available at Intercopy.
Besides, students will need a good bilingual dictionary (English/French, French/English) such as The New Collins Robert French Dictionary or Oxford/Hachette. They are also advised to get a monolingual dictionary such as Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners or Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Most of these are also available on CD-rom. |
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