Designing a course for the teaching of legal English with implementing mobile applications

Abstract EN

This study attempts to investigate the usefulness of technology-assisted instruction using legal English applications offered by Google play-store within the mobiles dotted with the Android operating system.

It studies how much they provide law students with English-for-Law and to what extent the content therein is appropriate for their present academic and future professional needs.

In this respect, ten legal English applications were downloaded randomly, analyzed in terms of content, and compared with the characteristics of legal English according to a set of criteria.

Then, they were applied as an assisting technique to teach law students ELP.

The results analysis revealed that law students were interested in using mobile applications to learn legal English.

The applications focus more on lexical content in a form of sole words and some combinations.

The mass of stored terminology, even though helpful, lacks the main linguistic features of legal English law students might need.