A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE APPLICATION OF THE CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION APPROACH TO LEGAL ENGLISH TEACHING
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Content-based instruction (CBI) has been applied widely in teaching English for specific purposes. This study aims to delineate a lecturer’s views of teaching legal English using the content-based instruction approach. A narrative frame was employed as the primary data source to gain insights into the perspectives of a Vietnamese lecturer. The participant was invited to write a reflection on different stages of his career from the past to the present and what he plans to do in the future. The data also came from classroom observation and teacher’s lesson plans. The findings show that the application of the content-based approach contributed to students' development in legal English. Students have opportunities to learn and use the target language in an environment in which language acquisition takes place through subject-matter knowledge. Moreover, the findings of this study reveal the teacher's concerns about teaching materials as well as the teacher’s content knowledge.
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content-based instruction, legal English, English for specific purposes
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Bhatia, V. (1987). Language of the law. Language Teaching, 20, 227-234.
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Cammarata, L. (2010). Foreign language teachers’ struggle to learn content-based instruction. L2 Journal, 2, 89-118.
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Chendeb, H. M. (2020). Evaluation of CLIL approach in legal English pedagogy. Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2), 108-116.
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Dupuy, B. (2000). Content-based instruction: Can it help ease the transition from beginning to advanced foreign language classes? Foreign Language Annals, 33(2), 205-223.
Emelyanova, T. V. (2017). Peculiarities of teaching legal English in multinational groups. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 237, 1494-1499.
Frade, C. (2007). Power dynamics and legal English. World Englishes, 26(1), 48-61.
Gray, D. E. (2004). Doing research in the real world. SAGE Publications.
Grossfield, B. (1985). Language and the law. Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 50(4), 793-803.
Haigh, R. (2009). Legal English. Routledge-Cavendish.
Howe, P. (1990). The problem of the problem question in English for academic legal purposes. English for Specific Purposes, 6, 215-236.
Hudson, T. (1991). A content comprehension approach to reading English for science and technology. TESOL Quarterly, 25(1), 77-104.
Husinec, S. (2011). The importance of content knowledge for successful legal language acquisition. Research in Language, 9(1), 125-133.
Hutchinson, T., & Waters, A. (1987). English for specific purposes - A learning-centered approach. Cambridge University Press.
Juraev, A., & Sobirov, T. (2017). Content-based instruction in teaching tourism and economics courses. In Rezekne Academy of Technologies (Eds.), Society. Integration. Education: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference (Vol. I, pp. 208-215).
Larsen-Freeman, D., & Anderson, M. (2011). Techniques and principles in language teaching. Oxford University Press.
Lesiak-Bielawska, E. D. (2015). The role of discipline-specific knowledge in ESP teaching. English for Specific Purposes World, (47), 1-15.
McDonough, J. (2010). English for specific purposes: A survey review of current materials. ELT Journal, 64(4), 462-477.
Medrea, N., & Rus, D. (2012). Challenges in teaching ESP: Teaching resources and students' needs. Procedia Economics and Finance, 3, 1165-1169.
Nguyen, T. T. N. (2019). Content-based instruction in teaching tourism. In VNU University of Languages and International Studies (Eds.), Kỷ yếu Hội thảo Khoa học Quốc tế: Dạy và học ngoại ngữ gắn với chuyên ngành trong bối cảnh hội nhập quốc tế: Lí luận và thực tiễn (pp. 160-168). VNU Publising House.
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Parkinson, J. (2000). Acquiring scientific literacy through content and genre: A theme-based language course for science students. English for Specific Purposes, 19, 369-387.
Patton, M. Q. (2014). Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice. SAGE Publishing.
Pham, A. H., & Ta, B. T. (2016). Developing a theoretical framework for ESP teacher training in Vietnam. The Asian ESP Journal, 12(1), 66-84.
Poedjiastutie, D. (2017). The pedagogical challenges of English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia. Educational Research and Reviews, 12(6), 338-349.
Richards, J., & Rodgers, T. (2001). Approaches and methods in language teaching. Cambridge University Press.
Robinson, P. C. (1991). ESP today: A practitioner's guide. Prentice Hall International.
Ryshina-Pankova, M. V. (2016). Scaffolding advanced literacy in the foreign language classroom: Implementing a genre-driven content-based approach. In L. Cammarata (Ed.), Content-based foreign language teaching: Curriculum and pedagogy for developing advanced thinking and literacy skills (pp. 51-76). Routledge.
Shiflett, M. (2017). Development of legal English. International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning, 4(2), 108-110.
Shrum, J. L., & Glisan, E. W. (2010). Teacher's handbook: Contextualized language instruction. Heinle, Cengage Learning.
Song, B. (2006). Content-based ESL instruction: Long-term effects and outcomes. English for Specific Purposes, 25, 420-437.
Soroka, I. A. (2019). Legal English: Particularities and challenges of teaching. Current Issues of Philology and Translation Studies, 15, 73-76.
Swain, M. (1985). Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development. In S. Gass & C. Madden (Eds.), Input in second language acquisition (pp. 235-253). Newbury House.
Tedick, D. J. (2018). Teacher development for content-based instruction. In S. Madya, F. A. Hamied, W. A. Renandya, C. Coombe & Y. Basthomi (Eds.), ELT in Asia in the digital era: Global citizenship and identity (pp. 3-14). Routledge.
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Wu, H., & Badger, R. (2009). In a strange and uncharted land: ESP teachers’ strategies for dealing with unpredicted problems in subject knowledge during class. English for Specific Purposes, 28, 19-32.
Yang, J. Y., & Chen, W. C. (2015). Students' perspective of using content-based approach in ESP class. English Language Teaching, 8(8), 18-30.