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The objective of the paper is to establish the relation between the use of authentic texts in the classes of Language for Special Purposes and the improvement of communicative abilities of students of tertiary education. At the university level, in particular, many teachers of Language for Specific Purposes become very much dependent on the published textbooks available, and even worse, when there are no textbooks available for a particular discipline, resolve in teaching from textbooks that may be quite unsuitable or published several years ago with out-dated content. Teachers are therefore left with no alternative than to develop original materials. Taking into consideration such a challenge, the Language for Specific Purposes practitioner's role as ”researcher” is especially important, with results leading directly to appropriate materials for the classroom. The paper analyses various authentic sources suitable for LSP classes based on the previous experience of language teachers and compares the use of those sources in teaching English for Specific Purposes for the Slovak students and teaching the Slovak language for the foreign students of medicine in Slovakia.. The method used in this research is comparative analyses focusing on the content of the classes, where authentic materials have been applied within the class. The results lead to the creation of suitable models of teaching classes for the university students with different backgrounds focusing on the use of authentic texts.
Affiliation of the author(s)
University of Economics in Bratislava, Comenius University
Biographical note(s) of the author(s)
Ivana Kapralikova (MA Education, MA Politology, PhD., Asst.Prof. of Business and Medical English) is currently working at the University of Economics and Comenius University in Bratislava. Her research interests include lexicology, jargon of the European Union institutions, psycholinguistics and didactics of English language.
Erika Jurisova (MA Education, MA Science, PhD., Asst.Prof. of Medical English and German, English for Computer Science and Slovak for Medical Students ) is currently working at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University and Faculty of Informatics at Paneuropean University in Bratislava. Her research area concetrates on lexicology, corpus analysis and innovations and ICT in laguage teaching.
| Contact e-mail address | erika.jurisova@fmed.uniba.sk |
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