DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATION AND SOFT SKILLS THROUGH CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS LAW

KALLUS, Hana, Eva TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Jarmila POKORNÁ and Eva VEČERKOVÁ. DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATION AND SOFT SKILLS THROUGH CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS LAW. In CERCLES 2020. 2020.

Basic information

• Original name: DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATION AND SOFT SKILLS THROUGH CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS LAW
• Name in Czech: Rozvíjení komunikace a měkkých jazykových dovedností v angličtině prostřednictvím případových studií
• Authors: KALLUS, Hana, Eva TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Jarmila POKORNÁ and Eva VEČERKOVÁ.
• Edition: CERCLES 2020, 2020.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Language Centre
• Keywords (in Czech): případové studie měkké manažerské dovednosti angličtina
• Keywords in English: case studies soft skills English
• Tags: soft skills English communication case studies in law and marketing
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The aim was to describe the general concept of a new multidisciplinary course created by Czech teachers of marketing, corporate law, unfair competition, legal and academic English, which has been jointly taught at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic since autumn 2018. The main aim of the course is to develop students’ legal and communicative competences, soft skills in English and creative thinking through solving case studies from Czech law. First, our motivation and experience with creating a team of teachers, who developed materials and activities and delivered the course will be explained. Since the team was built on mutual trust and recognition, it was a learning experience in methodology, materials development, tasks development, assessment, team building, gaining and sharing new expertise for all team members.

Abstract (in Czech)

Cílem příspěvku bylo seznámit s konceptem nového multioborového kurzu, který rozvíjí měkké manažerské dovednosti a komunikaci v angličtině prostřednistvím případových studií.