ILEC International Legal English Certificate Pretest Vorbereitungskurs

What is ILEC? ILEC is a Cambridge ESOL examination, developed in co-operation with TransLegal – Europe’s leading firm of lawyer-linguists. The exam is a high-level legal-oriented language qualification for lawyers and law students set at levels B2 to C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The exam is based on realistic tasks of the kind that legal practitioners would be expected to encounter in their daily working lives. Successful candidates are able to use the language in practical situations, to participate in meetings, negotiations, and discussions of a legal nature, express opinions clearly are able to understand and produce texts such a legal correspondence and memoranda. ILEC exams are given twice a year, in May and November. The examination tests the full range of communications skills needed by legal practitioners, takes approximately four hours in total and consists of four papers: • Test of Reading • Test of Writing • Test of Listening • Test of Speaking The Test of Speaking takes place separately from the other papers and is conducted face-to-face by qualified oral examiners. Internationally recognised ILEC is recognised by leading associations of lawyers including the European Company Lawyers Association, the European Law Students Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers, and the European Young Bar Association. The exam is also recognized by leading academic institutions such as the College of Europe. Wirtschaftsfremdsprachen Alle Teilnehmer erhalten eine Auswertung ihrer Ergebnisse und somit eine ausgezeichnete Standortbestimmung. Der ILEC Pre-Test kann an der Universität Siegen abgelegt werden und Ihre Fähigkeiten auch im Hinblick auf die Möglichkeit des späteren Erwerbs des ILEC (Cambridge International Legal English Certificate) bewerten und schulen. Er setzt sich zusammen aus drei Aufgabenbereichen: • Reading, 75min • Writing, 75min • Listening, 40min. Die Teilnahme sowohl am Vorbereitungstutorium als auch am späteren Pre-Test ist kostenfrei. Universität Siegen WiSe 2010/11 Dr. Becker Monika