Publication details
Travail sur la jurisprudence en classe de français juridique : un laboratoire de la pensée critique
| Title in English | Work on Legal Precedents in Legal French Class: A Laboratory of Critical Thinking |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Developing critical thinking may include exposition of students to complex and authentic intellectually challenging tasks. Academic LSP courses have become an environment that particularly suits critical thinking practice. Our aim is to present and analyze activities carried out for the purposes of critical thinking development in a course of Legal French offered by the Masaryk University Language Centre (Brno, Czech Republic). The activities are based on navigation in an online database of French legal texts. Their objectives vary, students may seek laws and court decisions according to the given criteria, analyze them, reconstruct procedures or present facts on a time axis. Differences in form and substance between the two national systems are also compared and discussed. The paper also explicitly considers processes that develop and strengthen critical thinking, namely work with concepts, creation of a problem schema, construction of shared knowledge and an interdependent way of thinking. |