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Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
– Searching for Common Solutions

24–25 November 2006

Call for Papers

Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology in co-operation with Language Department of the Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence kindly invite you to the international conference

Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
– Searching for Common Solutions

intended to offer a forum to present main issues and show possible solutions in teaching languages in higher education.

Topics: Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes: identifying problems and offering possible solutions, curricula, teaching objectives, content language integrated learning – principles, pluses and minuses, sharing experience;
Testing Languages in Higher Education: identifying problems and offering solutions, purposes, methods;
European Language Portfolio: methods of application, results, pros and cons;
ICT in Language Teaching in Higher Education: benefits, pitfalls, effects of different factors and approaches of the participants.
Official language: English
Submission: Registration form and abstract shall be submitted on-line, paper shall be sent electronically in the required format to the required addresses (see details on the following pages).

Contacts:

    Department of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Brno University of Technology
Technická 2
616 69 Brno
Czech Republic

Contact persons:
Ms Hana Vallová
  vallova@fme.vutbr.cz

  (conference fee payment)
Ms Dita Gálová
  galova@fme.vutbr.cz

  (information in English)
Language Department
Faculty of Military Technology
University of Defence
Kounicova 65
612 00 Brno
Czech Republic

Contact person:
Ms Alena Müllerová
  alena.mullerova@unob.cz

  (sending papers)

Conference sponsors:

Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press MacMillan British Council