How collocations are represented and taught in selected legal English textbooks
Katarzyna Mroczyńska
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, PolandKatarzyna Mroczyńska is a linguist with a background in economics, with her main research interest being collocations and the legal English genre. Other academic interests include translation of specialist texts, recent developments in computer-assisted translation and machine translation, borrowings in Polish specialist language, the role of metaphors in Business English, neurolinguistics, and the application of cognitive field theory in foreign language teaching and learning.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0367-1056
Abstract
The article deals with an issue which continues to draw increasingly more attention in LSP teaching, i.e., collocations, with a particular focus on legal collocations and legal English. The aim of the text is to offer an overview of the treatment given to specialised legal collocations in legal English textbooks used in tertiary level institutions in Poland. The methodology employed for selecting the textbooks is presented in detail in the Aims and Methodology section. The selected textbooks were then reviewed in terms of their collocation focus and the extent to which they follow pedagogical recommendations regarding teaching phraseology. Bearing in mind the importance of familiarizing students with natural and accurate language in order to help them master the legal genre, it appears that there is still a need to place more focus on phraseology and extend the formats and number of exercises centred on collocations.
Keywords:
legal English, ELP, collocations, teaching, foreign language acquisitionReferences
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Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Katarzyna Mroczyńska is a linguist with a background in economics, with her main research interest being collocations and the legal English genre. Other academic interests include translation of specialist texts, recent developments in computer-assisted translation and machine translation, borrowings in Polish specialist language, the role of metaphors in Business English, neurolinguistics, and the application of cognitive field theory in foreign language teaching and learning.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0367-1056
