1. Brno 24th November 2006 LSP in Higher Education Searching for Common Solutions Preparing Text-Based Materials for an ESP Lesson Pavel Kurfürst Department of Foreign Languages Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Palacký University Olomouc, CR

2. 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)

3. 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

4. visits/month (www.ucjlf.upol.cz)

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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)

8. 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

9. Text Publishing downloadable from the department webpage - at least 1 week PDF format (to retain the layout) trial version (free) of the pdfFactory software by FinePrint Software (www.pdffactory.com) simple form (RTF)

10. 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)

11. At the Seminar exercises incl. comments (approx. 30 – 45 mins) text – reading, comments etc. (30 – 45 mins)

15. 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

16. From a Presentation to a Workshop presentation: conference of language departments of Palacký University April 2006 - Olomouc workshop in a computer lab: teachers from language departments of Palacký University May 2006 - Olomouc

17. Workshop theoretical information what is PDF available software (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader) internet publishing (free web space providers)

18. Workshop practical hands-on activities (un)installation and use of applications pdfFactory, MS Word participants provided with templates, software installation files etc.

19. www.ucjlf.upol.cz pavel.kurfurst@upol.cz