Ghada Awada, Abir Abdallah
American University of Beirut and Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
ghadawada@gmail.com, abirabdallah@gmail.com
The Extent of Efficiency of Legal Videos in Enhancing the Writing
Skills and Vocabulary Acquisition of Lawyers in a Legal English
Class
Lawyers, in Lebanon, are incompetent in using legal English since almost all of the law
courses in Lebanon are in Arabic, and upon obtaining the practicing license, they are
requested to use only Arabic at the Lebanese courts. However, due to globalization, the
Lebanese lawyers started to receive a lot of cases and contracts that demand mastery of
the legal English needed to negotiate in writing using legal English.
This study aims at investigating the efficiency of legal terminology videos in enhancing
the writing skills and vocabulary acquisition of lawyers and raising their motivation. The
subjects of the study (n=16) are Lebanese lawyers whose ages range from 26 to 48
years old and are randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental one. The
subjects receive legal English instruction for twelve weeks. The instruction covers the
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
The only difference is that the experimental group receives the listening instruction using
the videos whereas the control receives the listening instruction using the instructor's
readings of certain texts. The instruments employed in the study are a pretest that
inspects the subjects’ written performance and use of legal terms in both the control and
experimental groups before carrying out any instruction, and a posttest that examines
any significant difference in the subjects’ written performance and acquisition of legal
terms in both groups after the instruction. Moreover, a questionnaire that investigates
the subject’s motivation is administered to the subjects in both groups before and after
the instructional period.
American University of Beirut and Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
ghadawada@gmail.com, abirabdallah@gmail.com
The Extent of Efficiency of Legal Videos in Enhancing the Writing
Skills and Vocabulary Acquisition of Lawyers in a Legal English
Class
Lawyers, in Lebanon, are incompetent in using legal English since almost all of the law
courses in Lebanon are in Arabic, and upon obtaining the practicing license, they are
requested to use only Arabic at the Lebanese courts. However, due to globalization, the
Lebanese lawyers started to receive a lot of cases and contracts that demand mastery of
the legal English needed to negotiate in writing using legal English.
This study aims at investigating the efficiency of legal terminology videos in enhancing
the writing skills and vocabulary acquisition of lawyers and raising their motivation. The
subjects of the study (n=16) are Lebanese lawyers whose ages range from 26 to 48
years old and are randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental one. The
subjects receive legal English instruction for twelve weeks. The instruction covers the
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
The only difference is that the experimental group receives the listening instruction using
the videos whereas the control receives the listening instruction using the instructor's
readings of certain texts. The instruments employed in the study are a pretest that
inspects the subjects’ written performance and use of legal terms in both the control and
experimental groups before carrying out any instruction, and a posttest that examines
any significant difference in the subjects’ written performance and acquisition of legal
terms in both groups after the instruction. Moreover, a questionnaire that investigates
the subject’s motivation is administered to the subjects in both groups before and after
the instructional period.
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