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A proactive approach to English-medium instruction in legal education: using text mining for legal terminology acquisition

By: Laura Ratniece  
Open Access
|Apr 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2025-0012 | Journal eISSN: 2674-4619 | Journal ISSN: 2674-4600
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Published on: Apr 2, 2025
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