Publication details
DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATION AND SOFT SKILLS THROUGH CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS LAW
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The aim was to describe the general concept of a new multidisciplinary course created by Czech teachers of marketing, corporate law, unfair competition, legal and academic English, which has been jointly taught at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic since autumn 2018. The main aim of the course is to develop students’ legal and communicative competences, soft skills in English and creative thinking through solving case studies from Czech law. First, our motivation and experience with creating a team of teachers, who developed materials and activities and delivered the course will be explained. Since the team was built on mutual trust and recognition, it was a learning experience in methodology, materials development, tasks development, assessment, team building, gaining and sharing new expertise for all team members. |