Training Law Students to Draft and Interpret Agreements in English
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2018, Vol 94, Issue 3
Abstract
One of the key issues of training legal professionals in Ukraine is lack of competence in applying English in their professional domain. While speaking remains a crucial part of language competence, more attention needs to be paid to reading and writing skills connected with drafting and interpreting agreements in view of the actual professional needs of future legal specialists. The article therefore is aimed at studying the specific skills to be developed that form the competence of drafting and interpreting agreements in English, followed by developing a working algorithm for building and developing the aforementioned skills. The material used for research mainly comprises a vast body of agreements concluded by reputable organizations and available in the public domain. The following stages of developing skills of drafting and interpreting agreements were singled out based on the results of the study: a) introducing the types and the structure of agreements; b) drafting an agreement based on a template; c) unassisted drafting an agreement. The set of tasks suggested to develop the aforementioned skills is based on the existing algorithms of teaching scanning, skimming reading and reading for detail. The tasks range from introducing the theoretical material to those reflecting actual professional context of legal professionals. From studying general and boilerplate provisions of agreements, students proceed to analyzing the linguistic peculiarities of contracts and go on to interpreting existing agreements to analyze the significance of each paragraph. The algorithm leads the students to independent drafting of an agreement with a follow-up group analysis
Authors and Affiliations
S. V. Vashchenko, M. V. Moroz
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