INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ENGLISH

Course Sheet

Course code:

000143IL

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in BUSINESS LAW

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ANGELONI GRAZIA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites
A2- B1 level competences (following the European language framework)
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Objectives

TEACHING/LEARNING AIMS
The course aims to develop in an integrated way the receptive and productive abilities, in this case either listening and oral or written comprehension, together with the ability to use the foreign language in a flexible and effective way. Finally the language reflection on a morpho-syntactic, semantic-communicative level will be developed and improved.
In the case:
B1-B2 (European language framework) skills, i.e.
General skills
• understand the general meaning of oral messages of various types
• understand specific information in oral messages of various types
•skimming, using appropriate strategies,
•Understanding the main ideas and specific information in texts of a technical-professional nature
interacting in conversations on topics related to work
producing descriptions of technical-professional topics
producing brief reports, summaries and coherent and cohesive comments, also with the aid of multimedia tools, using the vocabulary
producing coherent and cohesive written and oral texts, including technical and professional ones, concerning experiences, situations and processes relating to one's own sector of Specific skills

General linguistic knowledge
• communicative aspects of interaction and oral production in relation to the context and the interlocutors
• compensatory strategies in oral interaction
• strategies for oral interaction in study and work contexts, including formal ones

• skimming and scanning of complex written, oral and multimedia texts
• conventional vocabulary and phraseology for dealing with social and work situations; variety of register and context
• morphosyntactic structures, rhythm and intonation suitable for the communicative context and textual professional contexts of use

• organizing the speech in the main textual types, including technical-professional ones

Specific knowledge
The ones related to the contents of the syllabus

Contents

In order to make the teaching of the English language a cross curricular discipline in the degree course curriculum of, following an interdisciplinary approach, the following issues will be taken into consideration, extracted from the text pointed out in the section "References". In particular:

English for specific purposes: law and business
Legal English and its terminology
Classification of law
Contract law
Torts
Criminal law
Company law
Litigation and arbitration
Information technologies and law
International law
Human rights
sources of economic information
local, national and international economic system
subjects, markets, products and organs of the commercial system
processes of globalization and effects
analysis of problems related to the internationalization process of small and large companies
legal aspects of financial, banking and non-banking intermediation operations
international and community legislation on security and on the processing of personal data

social and environmental statements
consumer protection legislation
the social role of the company and examination of the social and environmental statements as a tool for information and communication to the community
national and international standards useful for consumer protection
international and supranational dimension and world trade discipline
the different types of contracts applied to commercial exchanges

The European Union
The main stages in the history of the European Union
the main treaties, the institutions of the European Union
consumer rights, environment, trade, mobility of persons, workers' rights
economic and monetary policy
Globalization
globalization: definition, advantages and disadvantages;
“glocalization” outsourcing and offshoring

Business ethics and green economy
the triple bottom line, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, fair trade, microcredit, ethical banking and ethical investment
Commercial documents

The international business transaction
lexicon and phraseology relating to offer, order, complaint, reminder

Extended Syllabus

In order to make the teaching of the English language a cross curricular discipline in the degree course curriculum, following an interdisciplinary approach, the following issues will be taken into consideration, extracted from the text pointed out in the section "References". In particular:

Business ethics and green economy
the triple bottom line, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, fair trade, microcredit, ethical banking and ethical investment
Commercial documents

The international business transaction
lexicon and phraseology relating to offer, order, complaint, reminder

Recommended Bibliography

REFERENCES
Flavia Bentini, Barbara Bettinelli, Kiaran O’Malley, BUSINESS Expert, Pearson Italia, Milano-Torino, 2016
handouts by the teacher

Teaching Methods

TEACHING METHODS
Interactive lessons based on inductive and deductive approaches and strategies. Cooperative learning, learning by discovery, learning by doing, debate after case study.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

ASSESSMENT METHODS
The follow-up assessment, in compliance with the learning aims above mentioned will be carried out by a written structured test, in order to assess reading comprehension and structural skills, as far as level B1 concerns. In the assessment test a value for each item will determine the final evaluation expressed in 20/20 or 30/30. The student who has got at least a 12/20 or 18/30 score will pass the examination

Contacts/More Information

COURSE ORGANIZATION
24 class hours and interactive lessons including exercises; 51 hours of individual study

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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