scholarly journals Some features of legal consiousness and legal literacy in Russia and abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Mihail Voronin ◽  
Lilia Moiseenko ◽  
Tat'yana Uskova ◽  
Mariya Vikulina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Legal Literacy ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the research. The research is aimed at identifying characteristic features, types and components of legal consciousness, the elements of its structure and its functions which help to realize legal attitudes in different legal situations from the point of view of Russian and Anglo-American law. The authors point out the influence of legal stereotypes and attitudes on the formation of an individual’s legal consciousness. Another element closely connected with the concept of legal consciousness is legal literacy, which helps an individual to socialize. Having analyzed the differences between the approaches to the concepts of legal literacy in Russian and Anglo-American legal culture the authors hold an opinion that legal literacy directly depends on the possibilities an individual has to obtain information about his legal rights and duties. Lack of such knowledge leads to negative legal consequences. Conclusions: The results of the study showed that in order to increase legal literacy it is necessary to form «positive» legal stereotypes and attitudes. One of the ways to succeed in it may be studying, analysis and discussion of legal texts in a foreign language. Such approach is used at Moscow State Linguistic University for the training of law students. Methodology and technique of the study. During the study of the concepts of «legal awareness» and «legal literacy», their formation and application by members of the legal profession and non-lawyers, the authors of the study used such generally recognized methods as general philosophical (dialectic, system method, analysis). In addition, a comparative analysis was made of the concepts studied in the Russian and Anglo-American legal culture. The article also presents the results of a survey of undergraduate students, which made it possible to assess the impact of the study of legal texts in a foreign language on the formation of legal stereotypes and attitudes.

Multimodal Narrative Texts, Creativity, and English Teaching as a Foreign Language

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Elena Bañares-Marivela ◽  
Laura Rayón-Rumayor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Secondary Classroom ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The Impact

The chapter explores a methodological approach where creativity is encouraged through the production of multimodal iPad-mediated narrative texts in the English as a foreign language classroom (EFL) in secondary education. The study, which is based on creativity of human language, evaluates the multimodal productions of a group of students of secondary education (Year 7) in Spain, who work with iPads (1:1 context) within a cooperative learning approach, and analyzes this learning experience from the students' point of view. The results show the impact multimodality has on the own students and on their way of working with the foreign language. The quality of their productions, not only regarding language but also as an act of creation, and the way they appropriate the different semiotic modes multimodality offers will also be examined. Finally, the authors suggest some guidelines to encourage multimodal production and creativity in the EFL secondary classroom and show examples which would help teachers and researchers to develop new didactic proposals at this stage.

scholarly journals Ideological manifestations of Christian-legal traditions in the legal system

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
I. V. Mima
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Historical Heritage

The process of development of various directions of objective scientific analysis of problems of the theory of the state and law is investigated; the analysis of transformational processes of Christian-legal traditions in the legal system is carried out. The author argues that the Christian legal traditions are a unique religious and social value, because they embody the fundamental principles of civilized organization of religious relations in society, their regulatory requirements. Christian legal traditions generalize national law at the level of the legal space, reflect the unity of the legal system, which fixes the legal individuality and identity of the country, which affects the formation of the national idea. The author notes that in modern society, Christian legal traditions, Christian legal traditions appear as a legal category, a phenomenon of legal culture, an element of the legal system and a component of the succession of law, which captures generalized legal experience, legal memory, legal knowledge and legal ideas. passed down from generation to generation as acceptable ways of organizing society, models of formation of the legal system, order in law, hierarchy of values in law, etc. The point of view that Christian-legal traditions can be characterized from the standpoint of traditionalism and modernism is substantiated. Socio-historical heritage is a liability of past traditions and a basis for the formation of new traditions. In general, modern society is characterized by the action of real Christian legal traditions, which combines authentic and non-authentic Christian legal traditions and socio-historical heritage in ensuring the heredity of social development with its previous stages. Authenticity is determined by the preconditions for the formation of Christian legal traditions in society, arising from the laws of the stages of its development. Inauthentic Christian legal traditions are created artificially and act as declared social norms that have not yet confirmed their value nature in the course of social practice. They are most often observed in societies undergoing transformational periods of their existence, during which there is a need for new methods of regulating social relations and means of community unification. Such Christian legal traditions can be used to fill gaps in the mechanism of social and normative regulation of social relations by connecting the past with new conditions and needs. In addition, Christian-legal traditions occupy an important place in the socio-normative organization of modern society, and during the historical process of development of society the content of Christian-legal traditions was influenced by ideological, cultural and socio-economic deformations of society. Christian-legal traditions as religious-normative principles ensure the realization of Christian-legal ideals and values in religious relations, their indisputable status in public life. Keywords: legal system, Christian-legal traditions, legal heritage, traditionalism and modernism, legal culture, legal consciousness, authentic and non-authentic Christian-legal traditions.

scholarly journals Speaking Up without Freaking Out

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-300
Author(s):  
Nurul Adillah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Presentation Skill ◽  
Esl Classroom

It has been reported that language learners use various strategies in learning a second or foreign language. And a lot of research has been done in this area. However, few studies have explored the impact of using scaffolding impromptu speaking activities in ESL classroom on alleviating speaking anxiety. Thus, the current study is an attempt to investigate whether scaffolding impromptu speech activities could help the students to perform better during oral presentation and reduce their speaking anxiety. At the beginning of the study, the students were asked to answer online questionnaire on speaking anxiety experience while holding an oral presentation tasks or assessment. 38 undergraduate students did the prepared impromptu speaking activities such as they have to do self-video recorded, impromptu speech in group and online discussion. This intervention was carried out for six weeks. After that, another online questionnaire on the effectiveness of scaffolding impromptu speaking activities was distributed. However, we only received 25 responses from the participants. Besides that, participants' views about the impromptu speaking activities were also examined through focus group interview. The results of the study indicated that by scaffolding impromptu speaking activities in ESL classroom, the students were able to reduce their speaking anxiety and enhance their oral presentation skill.

scholarly journals LEGAL CULTURE AND ITS ROLE IN A LEGAL STATE

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
С.Н. Логинов ◽  
Д.Г. Филимонов
Keyword(s):  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
The Relationship

Аннотация. В статье дается характеристика содержания понятий «правовая культура» и «правовое государство», выделяются особенности взаимоотношения этих понятий между собой. Констатируется отсутствие единого мнения исследователей по вопросу содержания и функций правовой культуры, рассматриваются ряд ее определений. Явление правовой культуры характеризуется с точки зрения деятельностного, качественного, аксиологического, социологического, структурно-функционального подходов. Выделяются и характеризуются сопутствующие правовой культуре явления как правосознание и правовое поведение. В статье рассматриваются уровни правовой культуры личности и общества, их показатели и факторы. Отражается уровень овладения правовой культурой гражданами нашего государства, а также обоснована необходимость формирования высокого уровня правовой культуры населения и методы стимулирования ее повышения. Отражены функции правовой культуры в государстве. Annotation. The article describes the content of the concepts "legal culture" and "legal state", highlights the features of the relationship between these concepts. The lack of consensus among researchers on the content and functions of legal culture is stated, and a number of its definitions are considered. The phenomenon of legal culture is characterized from the point of view of activity, qualitative, axiological, sociological, structural and functional approaches. The phenomena accompanying the legal culture are distinguished and characterized as legal consciousness and legal behavior.

scholarly journals The Impact of Translation Strategies on Second Language Writing

Fachsprache ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 140-154
Author(s):  
Carine Graff
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Skopos Theory ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
The Impact

This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of translation strategies as informed by Translation Studies in the foreign language (FL) classroom. The current study aims to map how translation, as perceived in Translation Studies, can be beneficial for students’ writing skills in the FL classroom. It focuses on undergraduate students in three French Composition classes: a control class in fall 2014, a second control class in fall 2015, and an experimental class in spring 2016, and explores how the students’ writing in the latter class improved after being exposed to translation strategies, such as explicitation, amplification, modulation, and approaches, such as Skopos theory. To determine whether translation strategies enable students to improve naturalness in L2 writing, their compositions and summaries were error coded using Kobayashi/Rinnert’s (1992) method of awkward form and wrong lexical choice, McCarthy’s collocation search, and Owen’s (1988) native speaker input. Statistical analyses were also performed. Results show that translation strategies are a useful tool to help students understand the foreign language and write more naturally.

scholarly journals Rule of law as a national phenomenon people's consciousness

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Olena Panchenko
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Natural Basis ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right

The article is devoted to the study of the rule of law as a social phenomenon, which is formed and viewed by us through the national legal consciousness of the people. These philosophical and legal categories are important for the formation of the correct (tested by time and reality) and the right awareness of society of their behavior, as well as effectively serve from the point of view of natural and legal influence on the formation and implementation of legal relations, and are a natural basis of law itself The main thrust of this article is that the rule of law in society depends to some extent on the national spirit of law and finds its foundations in the mentality of the people themselves. Historically, state and natural features of the rule of law further influence the formation of legal consciousness and legal culture in particular. Willingness is an important element of the national phenomenon in the consciousness of our people. The rule of law is the legal culture and legal consciousness that are closely linked to the national elements and characteristics of the people themselves who use the phenomenon. Since the rule of law is largely inherently in the form of ideas and perceptions, it is appropriate to note that such perceptions are necessarily nationalist in nature. Legal ideas and national ideas are fundamental to the formation and awareness of the rule of law Just as the rule of law is directly related to human nature, its national identity, and its vitality, it directly controls the sphere of human behavior and actions. The basic tenets that are enshrined in the rule of law are the ideas of freedom and justice. The rule of law as a national phenomenon of justice of the people is of the highest philosophical and legal value, since its place in the legal reality is determined by social and national factors and personality structure. Keywords: law, rule of law, phenomenon, national, legal consciousness.

Foreign language anxiety of an Ecuadorian polytechnic university’s English undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Estrella
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis research aimed to identify the levels of stress students experience, the different sources that generate them and the relationship between the stress levels and the students' gender.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-methods design was used, focusing on the quantitative stage. The qualitative section was designed to obtain supporting information. 86 Ecuadorian undergraduate polytechnic students enrolled in an English course took part in this study. Quantitative data are obtained using the Telecollaborative Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (T-FLAS), while online interviews supply insight from students.FindingsThe present research identified four types of anxiety related to emergency remote teaching (ERT). Communication anxiety is one of them that has also been found in regular foreign language classes (Horowitz et al., 1986). However, the actual contribution is regarding the other three sources of ERT-related anxiety: Online interaction anxiety, ERT anxiety and technology anxiety. Also, it was identified that girls experience higher anixety levels than men do.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of this study is the T-FLAS, a tool that has not been widely used. However, as Fondo and Jacobetty (2020) reported, other papers have made use of this novel tool. Another limitation to this research is the number of participants; although it is not very small, it might not be considered large enough for generalization purposes. Also, this study was limited by its scope, which only looked at the relationship between the students' genders and anxiety levels.Practical implicationsFirst, this researcher recommends that language departments use the survey at the beginning of each semester. That way, there will be a clear idea of the sources of anxiety students are experiencing, and measures can be taken to lower those anxiety-causing factors. Also, this study shows students experiencing a high level of anxiety when they are required to interact with their peers using a foreign language. Thus, supplying practice through guided discussions and role-plays should allow learners to reduce their anxiety levels and perform better during these kinds of exchanges in the short term.Social implicationsAnother issue reported by this study is the feelings of uneasiness when turning cameras on to do an exercise or taking quizzes and exams, as learners feel like their classmates and teachers are invading their homes. It is recommended that the Student Welfare Department of the educational institutions deal with this and other issues. They can design intervention, relaxation and yoga programs for students who are feeling anxious to help them lower those feeling and allow them to have better interactions in class during these times of remote learning.Originality/valueThis paper's originality lies in the fact that it looks at anxiety from the point of view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the move it had to be made to the digital realm. It identifies three factors that are new and related 100% to emergency remote teaching–learning. It is also valuable as it is looking at data emerging for a South American country, as data are scarce from this continent and especially from Ecuador.

scholarly journals Legal Value Orientations as Basic Category of Law Students’ Legal Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01068
Author(s):  
Zarina N. Ibragimova ◽  
Natalya A. Shchegoleva ◽  
Alexander S. Borisov ◽  
Albina V. Agayeva
Keyword(s):  
Construction Material ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Law School ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Basic Category ◽  
High Level

An obvious connection of legal culture, value orientations and legal consciousness was established by cross-disciplinary analysis. Legal culture is considered as a whole in relation to legal value orientations. The necessity of forming legal value orientations is proved, as without them it is impossible to achieve a high level of legal culture and to ensure a student’s behavior within the framework of the law. This component is analyzed as a compulsory element of a law school student’s legal consciousness. The concept of legal value orientations is defined from the standpoint of different approaches and from the point of view of various authors, wherein these orientations are studied through the cognitive-volitional component. The relation of legal value orientations and legal beliefs is analyzed. It is offered to comply with a number of pedagogical conditions, to apply certain methods and techniques, which will influence the educational process and will promote forming legal value orientations. The need for developing value orientations in students is proved; it is shown that without value orientations it is impossible to reach a high level of legal culture, to engage in civic activities and to become a law-abiding citizen. Legal value orientations are studied as a construction material of legal culture and govern a student’s legal behavior.

Concept of Mental Health and Disease for Practical Implementation: A Case-Based Teaching for Undergraduate Students Part II: Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry and the Homoeopathic approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Ramkunwar Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Case Based

Abstract Background India faces a significant gap in the prevalence of mental illness and the availability of effective mental health care. A significant factor is inadequate teaching/training of the subject at the undergraduate level rendering physicians incapable to deliver homoeopathic care to the large number of mentally distressed which needs it. This is in spite of our science having an immense potential to benefit these patients. Part I of this series explored the impact of cased-based teaching on acquainting the students in the principles of basic and applied psychology. The current study builds on this experience. Aim The aim of this study was to teach the basic concepts of abnormal psychology and psychiatry and the homoeopathic approach to homoeopathic undergraduate students based on case-based presentations Methodology Plan of teaching abnormal psychology and psychiatry to undergraduate students with a case-based approach integrated with homoeopathic principles was formulated by the Psychiatric Department of Dr. M. L. Dhawale Homoeopathic Institute (MLDMHI), Palghar, Maharashtra, India. PG students prepared topics with the help of a lesson plan template guided by the faculty. Peer evaluation along with student feedback helped to gauge the impact of the lectures and to design improvements. Results Eleven topics, one each week, covered the assigned portion for basic abnormal psychology and psychiatry. Reports of minimum 30 students revealed that 80% were keenly interested in the topics and desired to have more such lectures. Half the students were able to answer all the five multiple-choice questions correctly. Discussion Basic and comprehensive knowledge of psychiatry integrated with homoeopathic principles will allow students/physicians to know how cases are managed homeopathically from a more holistic and comprehensive point of view. Conclusions Case-based presentations through the homoeopathic approach will enhance the confidence of the students in the ability of the science to take care of the psychologically distressed section of the population.

scholarly journals Redrawing the Boundaries: R. Dvorkin’s Interpretativism in the Light of Traditional Typologies of Legal Theorizing

Legal Concept ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Sergey Kasatkin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Neutral Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: the paper is devoted to the interpretative concept of the outstanding American jurist Ronald Dworkin, formulated in his “Law’s Empire” (1986) and a number of other works. The subject of the paper is the characteristic of R. Dvorkin’s methodological approach. As its basis the author uses the interpretation of a “methodological model” of the thinker, proposed by the Mexican researcher Imer Flores, which is valuable for the effort to relate a (polemical and only partly explicit) approach of the American jurist with the classical criteria system of the typology of legal doctrines. Accordingly, the paper aims to identify (using the general scientific and specific scientific methods) R. Dworkin’s interpretativism in the context of the basic divisions of legal theories in modern Western (Anglo-American) jurisprudence, as well as to establish the impact of interpretativism on existing legaltheoretical typologies. As a result, the paper, first, outlines the key ideas of R. Dworkin’s doctrine, and secondly, examines I. Flores’s interpretation of the content and meaning of the interpretive methodology, thirdly, assesses the validity of such an interpretation with the justification of the status of interpretativism in the system of classical types of legal theorizing and its methodological implications. As a general conclusion, the paper argues for the status of R. Dworkin’s doctrine as a private and normative jurisprudence of the “internal point of view”. I. Flores’s thesis about the unification of traditional types of legal theories in interpretativism and transcending the dichotomy between positivism and natural law is disputed. Interpretativism challenges the established system of criteria for differentiating legal theories, rejecting a number of relevant methodological perspectives, primarily a general descriptive and morally neutral theory of law. By defending a necessary connection between law and morality, interpretativism, in fact, legitimizes the claims of natural-law concepts as to a proper explanation of “law as it is”, transferring their long-standing dispute with positivism to a new – methodological – level.

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