Soft skills and mediation in legal English:Towards a new methodological approach in ESP

CHOVANCOVÁ, Barbora. Soft skills and mediation in legal English:Towards a new methodological approach in ESP. In ESSE: 13th conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Galway. 2016.

Basic information

Original name

Soft skills and mediation in legal English:Towards a new methodological approach in ESP

Name in Czech

Mediace a soft skills v právní angličtině: Nové metodické přístupy v ESP

Authors

CHOVANCOVÁ, Barbora (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

ESSE: 13th conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Galway, 2016

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14640/16:00093688

Organization unit

Language Centre

Keywords (in Czech)

mediace; soft skills; ESP; právní angličtina; metodika výuky anglického jazyka; analýza potřeb

Keywords in English

mediation; soft skills; ESP; legal English; ELT methodology; needs analysis

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

This paper argues that one of the central components of ESP courses, as revealed by the process of ‘transferred needs analysis’ (Chovancová 2014), consists of soft skills. Those go beyond fluency of speech and accuracy of terminology since they involve the students’ ability to effectively communicate and negotiate in work-related professional contexts. This is particularly acute in the area of law where a significant amount of work consists of legal professionals mediating technical information to lay people. Identifying this situation as ‘intralanguage translation’ or ‘mediation’ (CEFRL), the paper presents several activities for developing this area of soft skills and demonstrates that this approach combines several desirable effects that range from the use of authentic materials, presentation of believable scenarios and practice of reformulation rather than verbatim reproduction of discipline-specific content (such as citing acts and regulations).

In Czech

Jednou z klíčových složek kurzů ESP jsou tzv. soft skills, tj. dovednosti, které studenti potřebují v praktickém životě nad rámec tradičních jazykových dovedností. V tomto příspěvku představuji teorii mediace a její využití ve výuce právní angličtiny.