Language skills training through role play Moot court: teaching French for specific purposes in multilingual groups

Abstract

The effectiveness of professional role play in studying foreign languages for specific purposes is the research subject of this paper. For these purposes, the authors studied and analyzed the legal role play, or in other words, the legal competition Moot Court intended for students of legal faculties and institutions as an educational instrument or technology in teaching foreign languages. In the context of higher legal education, role-playing in a foreign language becomes a model close to the future profession since it serves to better understand its particularities and details and become aware of its importance, usefulness, and necessity. The authors showed to what extent and how professional role-playing games contribute to studying and mastering a foreign language, what functions they perform and how they can be used in foreign language classes to obtain greater success in class. The study's main conclusions are based on an analysis of the data obtained following the assessment of the student's knowledge after the experience. The authors are convinced that during the game and its preparation, the participating student carries out many different activities related to learning a foreign language as he acquires knowledge of new lexical and grammatical structures, the syntax of a legal text and its terminology, the skills of dialogic speech and monologue, the ability to express oneself on professional subjects. Due to the motivational nature of the game and its properties of involving a student in a real creative and educational process, the acquisition of new linguistic knowledge occurs very actively and effectively.