An Evaluation on Curriculum of English Comprehension for Legal Research Course

Abstract

         The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to evaluate necessity of curriculum of English Comprehension for Legal Research Course with the points of graduate students at Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University; 2) to examine input factors affecting the learning outcomes or learning achievement of graduate students studying English Comprehension for Legal Research Course.  A set of 27 questionnaires (actual numbers of the questionnaires returned) were analyzed by the statistical program with means, standard deviation, and Stepwise-multiple regression correlation. 

          Research results were found as follows 1)  from a whole in all aspects on the satisfaction related to the necessity of English Comprehension of Legal Research Course in learning and teaching environment, input factors, the learning and teaching process and learning outcomes or learning achievement of English Comprehension for Legal Research Course were at the almost high level when compared to the established criteria; 2) three variables namely the importance of having English courses at the university level, further self-studies of English outside class and the consistency of class attendance.  Moreover, it is also found that the best crucial variable is further self-studies of English outside class.