MODERN AND INTERACTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING LEGAL ENGLISH

Аннотация

Teaching legal English has become in demand in the opportunities for those professionals who know English due to globalization, strengthening of economic ties of Uzbekistan with foreign countries and the connection with the expansion of strengthening at a good level. English teachers should help to the development of skills that will help law students to become competitive. Teaching legal English is a complicated but interesting process. When deciding to teach this sublanguage, it should be borne in mind that there are several modern and interactive methods. Teaching legal English to students requires using them in lessons in order to be effective and efficient at the same time. Various activities of these methods are used by teachers with the aim of teaching in deeper perspective. KEYWORDS: - Legal English, interactive methods, sublanguage, learning activity, legal systems. English speakers themselves, not to mention non- I NTRODUCTION native English speakers, because it includes Latinisms, French and Anglo-Saxon words and Teaching legal English is a process that requires an phrases, professional jargon and formal understanding of the following features outlined expressions, cliches and thus presents sufficient below. Firstly, it is advisable to start teaching legal complexity for people studying both English and English if the students’ level of proficiency in common law. Often, students of legal English have general English, including grammar, is not lower to analyze not only a legal term, but also a whole than intermediate, i.e. when a student can layer of vocabulary (including English-English competently construct a sentence and, in general, is definitions) related to any area of law, correlate able to adequately express his thoughts in English. with those concepts and terms, which forces them Secondly, a fairly solid knowledge of law is needed, to study a large amount of material on the topic and, since the study of legal English is carried out in a of course, requires a lot of time. comparative way, i.e. in the process of studying different legal systems are compared. Thirdly, M ETHODS English legal vocabulary is difficult even for native CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 190 SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(12): 190-194, December 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-12-36 ISSN 2767-3758 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted21thDecember, 2021 & Published 26thDecember, 2021 bear in mind that a modern specialist needs to have General language training should be combined with a level that would allow him to communicate, if professionally oriented training. In groups with a necessary, with specialists from other countries. To sufficiently high level of general language training, do this, he must know the basics of grammar, but, it is more effective to immediately begin special most importantly, they must know the vocabulary professionally-oriented training. Conversely, in of a legal orientation. After all, provided that a groups with a low and average level of English future lawyer has a grammatical minimum that proficiency, it is necessary to focus first on the covers the basic rules of morphology and syntax general language training of students, and then on and allows you to correctly understand a foreign professionally oriented. Grammatical material language text, but does not have a professional should always be worked out and fixed in oral vocabulary, it is impossible to feel free in a speech. It should be noted that the language level of conversational situation with other lawyers and not preparation of applicants entering the faculty of law get lost when discussing any professional situation. leaves much to be desired. However, despite this, Therefore, an important role in the foreign language the motivation of incoming students to learn training of law students is given to the assimilation English is usually high, since everyone knows that a of professional vocabulary. The assimilation of career as a lawyer with knowledge of English gives lexical units is carried out in order to develop oral great professional prospects. What are the features speech skills and is aimed at the implementation of of teaching English to law students? For many communication skills and an adequate response in years, the priority in teaching English has been typical situations of professional communication, given to grammar, vocabulary study, reading and both oral (to make messages concerning a literary translation. However, in recent years, the professional topic) and written (the ability to make question of the practical use of a foreign language a resume, any legal papers, etc.). It should be clearly has arisen. When teaching English to students of understood that legal documentation and law major, general language and professional communication have their own characteristics. language training should be carrie