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ILEC Events - 2011

March 25-26,An Introduction to Teaching Legal English. This two day training course consists of seven 90-minute workshops run by Matt Firth, co-author of Introduction to International Legal English and the International Legal English-based PLEAD blended learning course. The course also includes short presentations by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge ESOL. It uses original material developed with the specific needs of teachers new to Legal English in mind and provides an essential introduction for teachers interested in teaching for the Cambridge International Legal English Certificate (ILEC).
Please contact mariadweggah@umef-university.ch for further details. Places are strictly limited. Registration closes 4 March 2011.

ILEC Events - 2010

November 27th,The Language of International Arbitration and Mediation, the second in the series of Saturday Seminars for Lawyers, Zurich, Switzerland. For more information please visit: http://www.legalenglishskills.com/saturday_seminars.html

September 17th,An Introduction to Teaching Legal English with Matt Firth, Cambridge ESOL Winterthur Zürcherstrasse 46, 8400 Winterthur. For more information please visit the Cambridge website at: http://www.cambridge.org/ch/elt/news/event_details/item5964284/?site_locale=de_CH

September 3-5 ,EULETA (European Legal English Teachers' Association) Conference, Bucerius Law School Hamburg Germany. For more information please visit EULETA's website at http://www.euleta.de/.

February 26 , 4:30PM - 5:30PM, Global Legal Skills Conference V, Insights on Assessment of Global Legal English, by Robert N. Houser, TransLegal.

ILEC Events - 2009

Saturday 21 November, 14.15 - 15.00, 2009 Annual BESIG Conference, Poznan Poland - "Speaking activities for Cambridge International Legal English Certificate (ILEC) candidates" by Matt Firth.

Saturday 14 November, Third annual Legal English Conference, Warsaw, Poland, Hotel Novotel Warsaw Airport.
-"Blended approaches to Legal English Training" by TransLegal & Matt Firth.

TransLegal, Cambridge ESOL and Cambridge University Press will be hosting three one-day teacher training sessions in July.

Monday 6 July, Vienna 10.00 – 18.30
Tech Gate Vienna Donau-City-Strasse 1, A-1220 Wien

Monday 27th July 2009, Munich 10.00 – 18.30
Platzl Hotel Sparkassenstraße 10, 80331 München

Wednesday 29th July 2009, Hamburg 10.00 – 18.30
Bucerius Law School Jungiusstraße 6, 20355 Hamburg

The sessions will be run by Amy Krois-Lindner and Matt Firth, and will include work in the following areas:

Introduction to Teaching Legal English - How to teach Legal English
Setting up an ILEC class
Materials development for Legal English
Course design for Legal English

The events are free of charge. Workshops and refreshments will be provided courtesy of Cambridge ESOL, TransLegal and Cambridge University Press.

Full programme details can be found at:http://www.cambridge-exams.de/documents/ILECeventprogramme2009.pdf

Online registration is available at: http://www.cambridge.org/elt/ch/news/4118_news.html

March 24th (8:45 – 11:30): Legal and Financial English Presentation, Presented by: William Yeago, Translegal – University of Paris
Novotel Luxembourg Centre, 35 Rue du Laboratoire,L – 1911 Luxembourg

March 28th (full day event): Teaching for the International Legal English Certificate, A workshop for teachers, presented by Matt Firth (PLEAD Production Manager), Kenneth Raphael (ILEC Regional Manager for Switzerland) and Elayne Wehrlin (Cambridge ESOL) EPFL Lausanne

In order to secure a place, please register as soon as possible under www.cambridgeesol.org/events or call +49 (0)30 700 9693- 0.

May 16th: EULETA Workshop 2009, Testing, Assessing and Evaluating Legal English Skills
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Details to be posted at www.euleta.org.

June 13th: (2pm to 5pm): Workshop: Legal English, English World Institute, Cambridge University Press,Cambridge ESOL,TransLegal Free for TESOL France members. 8 euro for non-members
Télécom ParisTech 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris
William Yeago (Universities of Paris I - Sorbonne and Paris II - Assas.) will share his experience preparing students in Legal English. He will explain how teachers can
approach these specialized classes, how to prepare, how to focus on the language and where
to find appropriate and relevant materials

For general enquiries regarding ILEC events please contact: ilec@translegal.com

Free ILEC Pretesting
Pretesting gives ILEC candidates a chance to try their Reading, Listening and Writing skills in an ILEC examination environment before the actual test. Pretesting takes place at various locations. And, of course, the pretest takers get a free assessment of their skills from Cambridge ESOL. For further information regarding pretesting, please contact the Pretesting Administrator. ILECpretesting@cambridgeesol.org