Christine Feak and Susan Reinhart

An Overview

By Suetyet Tam

18 hrs insturction per week

Postgrad course design

Asian and South American students

Reading, writing, legal issues, listening, speaking,

No evaluation, one-to-one feedback in writing

Lawyer/ EAP teacher + language teacher

Workshops, Class visits, film, field trips

Content knowledge (Professionalism vs Assumption)

Values and behaviour (Learners vs profession)

(Learners vs community)

- structure – LAW – passive? Assertive? What forms & functions

of language is accepted

Reading, writing, speaking and listening genres for law

- How much should we emphasized given that is it a postgrad

course?

- What should we cover? Legal practice has various branches –

criminal, civil, marital