A Study on the Evaluation Framework of Legal English Textbooks Based on the Perspective of Legitimation Code Theory
The legal professional community in legal English textbooks is the imagined and expected community that can provide more possibilities for learners'future professional identity.The clear and comprehensive presentation of legal professional identity in textbooks is conducive to learners'professional socialization.This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the evaluation of legal English textbooks based on the Legitimation Code Theory around the construction of professional identity,uses the epistemic relations and social relations of the specialization principle in the Legitimation Code Theory to evaluate the presentation of the ideal knowers in legal English textbooks,and innovatively proposes that the evaluation content should consist of two parts:the knowledge content and the knower content.The proposed evaluation framework has practical reference value for the selection and development of legal English textbooks,and it can also expand the application scope of Legitimation Code Theory.
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