Open AccessChallenges in Learning Legal English from Students’ Perspective at Hanoi Law University
Author(s) -
Hương Thanh Nhạc
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of language and literary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2704-7156
pISSN - 2704-5528
DOI - 10.36892/ijlls.v2i3.675
Subject(s) - syllabus , legal research , international legal english certificate , empirical legal studies , perspective (graphical) , legal profession , legal education , english law , law , institution , face (sociological concept) , english for specific purposes , political science , legal realism , subject (documents) , pedagogy , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , comparative law , black letter law , computer science , private law , social science , artificial intelligence , library science
Legal English, also known as Language of the Law (Mellinkoff, 2004), is an dispensible factor contributing to the development of legal field. At Hanoi Law University, Legal English is a compulsory subject in the syllabus of legal English majors and International Trade Law majors. The question that what obstacles students face when dealing with legal English, however, has not been fully answered at this institution. This present research,which makes use of survey questionnaires as the main method, aims to study the challenges of learning legal English from the students’ perspective. The results indicate notable difficulties arising from the distinctive characteristics of legal English, differences in legal systems between jurisdictions and insufficient background knowledge of the laws. It is expected that these findings propose a number of practical recommendations in order to improve the effectiveness of the process of learning and teaching legal English.