“English as a Foreign Languages” syllabus for first-year Bachelor students in law

Abstract

Abstract. The course is aimed at the first-year-of-study Bachelor students in law. The goal of the course is to formEnglish communicative competence of law students to ensure their effective interaction in a professionalenvironment at the international level. The course syllabus pays special attention to the specific features oflegal English, particularly the use of legal terms, Latin borrowings, grammatical structures, as well as somecommunicative aspects of oral and written speech of legal professionals. The course syllabus also outlinesthe methods of teaching, gives the overview of the assessment procedure of learning outcomes and objectivesand provides the reading list with references.