Christiaan Prinsloo

This paper investigates how English for Academic Legal Purposes-type (EALP) textbooks, published over the past three decades, have evolved and responded to the challenges of law school education. The purpose of such investigation is three-fold: (1) to determine the nature of the typology that configures the composition of contemporary EALP-type textbooks; (2) to (re)define EALP in light of the new typology; and (3) to determine the possible implications of such typology for legal English pedagogy. The literature review revealed that between 1980 thought 2002, legal English textbooks focused primarily on writing instruction with disproportionate emphasis on grammar, legal content, and general writing skills. A qualitative content analysis of a sample of 44 EALP-type textbooks, published between 2002 through 2013, revealed a shift toward multi-skills instruction that is pragmatically scaffolded across the duration of law school. Increasingly, contemporary textbooks attempt to inculcate a comprehensive set of skills that satisfies the needs of academia and legal practice. In pedagogic scholarship these sets of skills are referred to as literacies. Accordingly, EALP is redefined and the features of contemporary EALP-type textbooks are revealed through the new typology. Across the circles of world English, the legal discourse community could utilize these findings as follows: to reevaluate the scaffolding of legal English instruction in terms of law school curriculum design, to determine the features of jurisdiction-specific and universally applicable EALP-type textbook content, and to assist teachers and learners in their decision-making process when selecting course materials.

Die interpretasie en toepassing van die reg in Suid-Afrika word reeds vir dekades deur 'n regspositivistiese stelsel bestuur. Hierdie modernistiese toepassing van interpretatiewe reels en die toepassing van die reg soos dit is, eerder as hoe dit behoort te wees, het tot verskeie historiese ongeregtighede gelei. Hoewel verskeie pogings aangewend is om die interpretatiewe sisteem te wysig, was hierdie pogings sinneloos aangesien dit beskou kan word as variasies op dieselfde modernistiese melodie. In hierdie artikel stel ek, as alternatief vir die huidige interpretatiewe perspektiewe, 'n herkonfigurasie van die huidige voor deur die moontlikheid van postmoderne interpretasie te ondersoek. Alhoewel die postmoderne interpretasie strukturalistiese wetenskappe destabiliseer, beteken dit nie dat hierdie benadering 'n laissez-faire- benadering is waarin alle struktuur oorboord gegooi word nie. Ten einde ons modernistiese onsekerhede te oorkom, stel ek voor dat ons as eerste stap ...

This paper investigates how English for Academic Legal Purposes-type (EALP) textbooks, published over the past three decades, have evolved and responded to the challenges of law school education. The purpose of such investigation is three-fold: (1) to determine the nature of the typology that configures the composition of contemporary EALP-type textbooks; (2) to (re)define EALP in light of the new typology; and (3) to determine the possible implications of such typology for legal English pedagogy. The literature review revealed that between 1980 thought 2002, legal English textbooks focused primarily on writing instruction with disproportionate emphasis on grammar, legal content, and general writing skills. A qualitative content analysis of a sample of 44 EALP-type textbooks, published between 2002 through 2013, revealed a shift toward multi-skills instruction that is pragmatically scaffolded across the duration of law school. Increasingly, contemporary textbooks attempt to inculcat...

A Divina Comedia , de Dante Alighieri, e uma obra influenciadora, ja que, no decorrer do tempo, continua sendo relida, revisitada e reproduzida de diferentes maneiras: filmes, pinturas, best-sellers , teatros entre outros modos. Gracas a vastidao de seu sentido, muitos estudiosos dela se valem para criar outras obras, a exemplo do filosofo Giorgio Agamben, que se valeu de aspectos a ela subjacentes para retoma-la e efetuar estudos filosoficos. Por ser continuamente lida, relida, retomada, ser influencia para inumeros autores e instigante para muitos estudos a seu respeito, ela continua viva no tempo, o que a faz uma obra canonica. E disso tambem advem o seu carater rizomatico, como e vista por muitos autores. Palavras-chave : Divina Comedia . Giorgio Agamben. Literatura. Relacoes de poder. ABSTRACT The Divine Comedy , written by Dante Alighieri, is an influential work, since over time, it continues to be reread, revisited and reproduced in different ways, such as: movies, paintings,...

Digital interaction in higher education is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, the effects that such digital interaction has on the lived experiences of students and teachers within the traditional classroom should be illuminated from different perspectives to inform pedagogy adequately. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of instant messaging (IM) as an educational and communicative tool in the context of a multidisciplinary English for Academic Purposes (EAP) presentation course. To achieve the purpose, a phenomenological methodology and qualitative content analysis method were used to describe and reflect on the lived experiences of the research participants. As a result, three main themes were identified that characterize the lived experiences, namely interpersonal relations, pedagogic concerns, and psychosocial influences. The integration of these themes with relevant pedagogic theories and a tailored research design led to three main contribut...

Despite the alarming suicide rate among South Korean emerging adults, relatively little is known about their unfettered perspectives on death and suicide. Therefore, an innovative data collection technique was developed to apprehend the meanings that emerging adults attribute to death and suicide in their explorations of the phenomena through a selection of short stories. A convenience sample ( N = 114) responded to a survey in which participants transferred their feelings toward death and suicide to characters or events in the short stories. A qualitative content analysis revealed relatively permissive perspectives toward death and suicide. Negative perspectives on death are associated with societal victimization and positive perspectives with naturalistic fatalism. Positive perspectives on suicide are overwhelmingly rooted in existential, individual choices while negative perspectives focus on societal pressures. These perspectives contribute to illuminating tensions between tradi...

The marginalization of English second (L2) and foreign language (EFL) users in the academic and practical pursuit of English language teaching (ELT) has fueled the hegemonic power of the inner circle of world Englishes (CWE). Because of the inequality among the circles of world Englishes, this paper pursues a dual purpose: firstly, it sets out to determine the sociolinguistic effects of globalization on the CWE; and secondly, it establishes how these sociolinguistic effects contribute to the homogenization of the circles and a seemingly more equitable notion of (world) English(es). Drawing on available qualitative descriptions and empirical data, three practical contexts of sociolinguistics were identified (viz. demographic shifts, economic motivations, and language education policy) to realize the dual research purpose. Based on a qualitative instrumental case study of a purposive sample of one country from each CWE, the study assesses the possibility to justify the proposition tha...