Investigation the Importance of the Four English Language Skills in Teaching a New ELP (English for Legal purposes) Course Design.

This study is concerned with investigation of the importance of the four English Language Skills in teaching a new ELP (English for Legal purposes) Course Design.The present study is limited to the first-year students in the College of Law / Tikrit University during the academic year 2017/ 2018.It is hypothesized that in teaching a new ESP course, i.e., LE, all the four English language skills are extremely important and should be emphasized in a closely similar degree.This study aims at:1. Designing an ESP course for teaching an ELP (English for legal purposes), according to the analysis of students' constructed needs.2. Investigating whether the four English Language skills are important and should be emphasized in teaching an ELP course.After instruction for six weeks, a situation analysis has been constructed by the application of questionnaire and interview analysis.Results indicate close importance of the four English language skills along with the inclusion of the two elements of language are all required to be emphasized in the proposed specialized legal English course.Finally, in the light of the obtained results, a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions have been put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]