Reel justice in the context of teaching Legal English as a foreign language.

• Authors: Andrzej Dąbrowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper tackles the issue of law-related cinematic and television productions, metaphorically described as reel justice, in the context of teaching Legal English as a foreign language. In the light of current trends in ESP and film pedagogy, an integrated skills teaching approach is presented that attempts to invoke subject-specific, intercultural and language knowledge of Polish learners of Legal English. The core of the paper focuses on different film-based tasks, exploiting the American series Boston Legal as a didactic material. The paper concludes with recommendations for further research.

Keywords

EN

ELT; ESP; film pedagogy; generic knowledge; legal genre; needs analysis; reel justice; subject-specific knowledge.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 107-120

Dates

published

2017-01-10

Contributors

author

Andrzej Dąbrowski

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2016.43.2.06