Ciclo de argumentación mediante estrategias problematizadoras para promover la competencia argumentativa oral y escrita en un curso de Inglés Legal

Abstract

The problematizing pedagogy at Santo Tomás University constitutes the methodological core of every subject and seeks to strengthen students’ competences to answer in an ethical, creative and critical way to the context requirements. As a result a Legal Argumentation Cycle (LAC) was created bearing in mind the epistemological foundations at Santo Tomás University, the analysis of social problematics in the light of law, and the need to develop an argumentative discourse in a foreign language. The implementation of the LAC enabled students to identify the relationships of specific problematics with their surrounding reality. Besides, it really empowered them to express their ideas based on their experiences and arguments, and build up important features in the lawyer’s discourse as coherence, social relevance and commitment.