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MINISTRY OF JUSTICE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY TRAN THIEN NGAN 443016 DEMOTIVATING FACTORS AFFECTING LEGAL ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENT ACQUISITION OF LEGAL ENGLISH AT HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY Hanoi — 2023 MINISTRY OF JUSTICE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY TRAN THIEN NGAN 443016 DEMOTIVATING FACTORS AFFECTING LEGAL ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENT ACQUISITION OF LEGAL ENGLISH AT HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY Major: Legal English GRADUATION THESIS Supervisor Vu Van Tuan, Ph.D Hanoi — 2023 il STUDENT DECLARATION I hereby state that I: Tran Thien Ngan — ID 443016, being a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts accept the requirements of the University relating to the retention and use of Bachelor's Graduation Paper deposited in the library In terms of these conditions, I agree that the origin of my paper deposited in the library should be accessible for the purposes ofstudy and research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the librarian for the care, loan or reproduction of the paper Supervisor’s confirmation April 21", 2023 Researcher’s signature Vu Van Tuan, Ph.D Tran Thien Ngan 1H ACKNOWLEDGMENT A thesis is never successfully completed in isolation I received help, encouragement, critique, consolation and from many people who deserve acknowledgement The researcher is greatly indebted to the invaluable assistance and support of the following generous and talented people who have made an otherwise abstract, complex and random thoughts come into shape that this work is right now, wishes to express her sincere gratitude to all those who helped her in the completion of this humble research work which she hopes to give as her contribution to the efforts of teachers to provide excellence in the completion of her research They are legion but because of limited space only few are named here while the most are treasured more in her memory and her heart She would like to heartily express her deepest appreciation and gratitude to her Supervisor, Dr Vu Van Tuan, for his incomparable wisdom, willing and unparallel expertise giving the author the needed guidance in the completion of the study; She would love to thank all of the lecturers from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hanoi Law University who have provided her with invaluable sources of knowledge and instructions during her study at this Institute; She also wishes to thank the members of the thesis defence committees who were generous with their expertise and precious time Their pieces of advice, insightful criticisms, and patient encouragement aided the writing of this dissertation in innumerable ways; She offers her sincerest thanks to student participants who have enthusiastically participated in the study Their participation is greatly important to the completion of the research; Last but never least, she must express her sincere gratitude to her family and friends whose support has been a great significance to the success of her thesis; IV And to all those who in one way or another made this work reach its fruition, the researcher is especially blessed to have had them all ABSTRACT Different countries promulgate and implement different kinds of legacy system to govern all activities, so there is a growing need for graduates who can master at least legal English to address this issue Most educational systems have equipped students with knowledge of laws, especially in countries using English as a foreign language where there is a combination of English and legal knowledge This study examined four demotivating factors heavily influencing the progress of learners who acquire legal English There are 222 representative legal English major students, who are in the courses of K44, K45, and K46 at Hanoi Law University in a mixed-methods approach The results reveal that the respondents remark that infrastructure-related factors and university/faculty-related factors are regarded as demotivating factors For teacher-related factors and student-related factors are not considered as problematic to them It is advisable for school administrators to adjust their policies to upgrade the infrastructures to serve better teaching qualities by reserving specialized spaces for legal English major students to improve their legal English competency in mooting situations there Besides, they claim that there should be more chances to exchange their legal English abilities with other institutions and current legal practical venues to keep them updated The findings of this study would benefit for school administrators, teachers of legal English, students and anyone who is concerned about the capability of using legal English at work vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration by author lil Acknowledgements IV Abstract VI Table of contents Vil List of tables 1x List of abbreviations PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for study 2 Aims and Objectives of the Study 2.1 Aims of the study 2.2 Objectives of the study 3 Research Questions 4 Scope of the Study 5 Significance of the Study 6 Methodology 7 Structure of the Study PART IT DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 English for Specific Purposes L2 Legal English —mằ=¬¬=mCoNOWNm 1.3.Demotivation 1.4 Demotivating factors 1,5, Previous studies 1.6 Summary CHAPTER 2 METHODOLOGY aL Research design Poe Research Question Restated 2.3 Participants vi 2.4 Research instruments 18 20.2 Procedures of data collection 19 2G, Data analysis 19 2.7 Summary 20 CHAPTER 3 RESULTS AND DICUSSION 21 ENP Demographic information of the respondents 21 3.2 The analysis of teacher-related factors affecting major legal 22 English students %3, The analysis of student-related factors affecting major legal 26 English students 3.4 The analysis of infrastructure-related factors affecting major legal 30 English students Jp The analysis of university/faculty-related factors affecting major 3® legal English students 3.6 The summative analysis of students’ semi-structured interviews 35 about the demotivating factors affecting legal English major students 3.7 The contrastive analysis about the demotivating factors affecting 37 legal English major students in terms of courses 3.8 Summary Sĩ PART III CONCLUSION 38 CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION 38 4.1 Summary of the main findings 38 4.2 Implications 39 4.3 Limitations and suggestions for further research ay 4.3.1 Limitations 39 4.3.2 Suggestions 40 REFERENCES 41 APPENDIX Appendix A QUESTIONNAIRE vill LIST OF TABLES Page 21 Table 1 Profiles of the respondents involving in the study 24 Table 2 Teacher-relatedfactors 28 Table 3 Student-relatedfactors 31 Table 4 [nfrastructure-relatedfactors 33 Table 5 University/faculty-relatedfactors 36 Table 6 Summarized analysis of students’ semi-structured interviews (manipulated by NVivo) 37 Table 7 Tests of Between-Subjects Effects in terms of courses