أبحاث قانونية وسياسية
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 799-807
2025-12-30

Teaching Legal Language To Law Students: Challenges, Approaches, And Practical Insights

Authors : Yassad Rabah .

Abstract

Teaching a foreign language for law students is not an easy task for many reasons; the utmost of them is related primarily to their levels and specialty. In this regard, this study will discuss first of all the notion of LSP in the legal field and focuses then on how should a foreign language teacher address this important issue and what are the best ways to tackle this thorny question. Proceeding from this fact, we will give many samples of French and English courses dealing with this matter highlighting focal differences between ordinary language and legal one. We target also through this presentation to give simple approaches and answers over the easiest ways and methods to grasp and understand legal terminology for law students and all interested parties herein. To conclude, we seek to give some recommendations to help improve foreign language teaching methods in Law's Departments in order for both students and all legal professionals to improve their skills and competencies and notably to take pace with working requirements later on.

Keywords

French and English legal teaching samples ; language for special purposes ; law professionals and practitioners ; law students’ language issues ; legal language