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LSP in Higher Education Searching for Common Solutions
Preparing Text-Based Materials for an ESP Lesson
Pavel KurfürstDepartment of Foreign LanguagesFaculty of Medicine and DentistryPalacký University Olomouc, CR
Department of Foreign Languages
established 1996 languages for specific purposes (LSP)
(medicine, health care) Latin / Latin for foreigners English German Czech for foreigners
5 members 680 students/semester (WS 2006/07)
www.ucjlf.upol.cz
established February 1997 (Google: 9/98) edited by ourselves; nearly daily updated seminar programmes, materials to download,
exam dates and results, evaluation results, archive (conferences, presentations) etc.
3,800 files (63 MB) top visits: 2,337 visits/month (9/2006) 56,000 visits since 3/2000
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Use of Text-Based Materials course of English for the Health Care
Management part-time study programme(compulsory; 4 semesters)health care services, management, economics
course of English aimed at work with scientific texts for all study programmes including PhD (optional; 1 semester)medicine, health care services
Text Selection
internet (el. form necessary for further processing)
search engines (key words) already known servers
who.int health.yahoo.com about.com en.wikipedia.org nobelprize.org etc.
Text Editing
range approx. 1,500 words (abridged if needed)
changes to subheadings, paragraphs etc. formatting (MS Word) – font type and size,
alignment, two columns, numbered lines reference (link) to the original web site alphabetic list of recommended vocabulary
(in English; approx. 70 words)
Exercises
1 page with approx. 8 exercises for each text
vocabulary (parts of speech, collocations, synonyms, antonyms…)
reading comprehension (questions,true or false…)
grammar (prepositions, gaps, correct forms…) other exercises formatting (MS Word) – identical font,
alignment, two columns
Text Publishing
downloadable from the department webpage
- at least 1 week PDF format (to retain the layout) trial version (free) of the pdfFactory
softwareby FinePrint Software (www.pdffactory.com)
simple form (RTF)
Before the Seminar
students download and print the materials(usually a 2-page text + 1 page with exercises)
work with the text – contents, vocabulary incl. pronunciation etc.
not necessary / advisable to do the exercises
in advance (print and bring)
At the Seminar
exercises incl. comments(approx. 30 – 45 mins)
text – reading, comments etc.(30 – 45 mins)
cons pros
relatively time-consuming
PC skills slightly above average - internet, MS Word, PDF files, webpage editing (use of e-mail instead)
copyright?
authentic and up-to-date texts
changes before each use
more frequent replacement of materials
user-friendly layout
From a Presentation to a Workshop
presentation:conference of language departmentsof Palacký UniversityApril 2006 - Olomouc
workshop in a computer lab:teachers from language departmentsof Palacký UniversityMay 2006 - Olomouc
Workshop
theoretical information what is PDF available software (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat
Reader, Foxit Reader) internet publishing (free web space
providers)
Workshop
practical hands-on activities (un)installation and use of applications pdfFactory, MS Word participants provided with templates,
software installation files etc.
