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The Office of English Language Programs of the U.S. State Department is offering an online teacher training course in English
for Law for eligible candidates.
The course will introduce the most recent English language teaching methods and techniques, offer the opportunity to engage
in an innovative distance-learning program that employs the latest in modern technology, and provide direct access to U.S.
experts with whom participants might not normally have the opportunity to interact.
The course will provide the participants with an extensive overview of the concepts behind the legal system in the United
States and give a framework for teaching English to professionals in the legal field by introducing the best current practices
in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) field.
Participants will:
(1) increase their understanding of current ESP methodology,
(2) improve their legal analysis skills in American English,
(3) better understand the basis of the U.S. legal system, (4) increase their understanding and basic use of concordances
for classroom learning,
(5) enhance both their general and legal vocabulary,
(6) have the opportunity to network and share views with local, regional, and international colleagues on a variety of
legal and ESP issues through e-mail, synchronous, asynchronous discussions and other media formats.
This course will begin in Fall 06 and run for 10 weeks.
Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate. Five Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will
be awarded upon completion of the course.
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