从“全知”到“聚焦”:法律英语课程体系改革的思路

Switch from “Comprehensive Knowledge Instruction” to “Focus”:An Approach to Legal English Course Reform

法律英语在法律人才核心素质培养中具有重要价值。在大田调查与大数据分析的基础上,对高校法律课程体系存在的突出问题进行分析,法律英语课程体系应该在学习目标、教学内容与授课方式上进行必要改革。改革的基本思路包括:一是教学内容设计与实施要实现从所谓全面的知识掌握到聚焦核心素质培养的彻底转变;二是教学方法要及时跟进信息化法治社会建设的步伐并加以必要改进;三是要对"法律人才"概念有一个全新的认知,并在法律专业英语教学实践中得到相应体现和落实。

Legal English plays an important role in cultivating the core quality of legal personnel. On the basis of field surveys and relevant big data, the prominent problems confronted in Legal English Course for colleges and universities are analyzed, and a necessary reform must be carried out in Legal English Course in the aspects of study target, teaching content and forms of lectures. The basic ideas of the reform include： 1. In the design and implementation of teaching content a thorough transformation should be achieved from the so-called comprehensive knowledge instruction to the focus on core quality cultivation. 2. The teaching methods must timely keep pace with the construction of an informationized society ruled by law and need necessary improvement. 3. A totally new cognition of the concept of legal personnel should be formed, and be reflected and carried out accordingly in the practice of English teaching for law major.