On 6-8 June 2003, the Department of Foreign Languages organized the 3rd Scientific and Educational Conference:
"Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes – Responding to Challenges”.
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Minister of Education - Krystyna Łybacka, PhD
Marshal of Wielkopolska Region - Stefan Mikołajczak
His Magnificence the Rector of Poznan University of Technology - Professor Jerzy Dembczyński
Professor Waldemar Pfeiffer
Professor Weronika Wilczyńska
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Liliana Szczuka-Dorna
Waclaw Szczepaniak
Iwona Gajewska-Skrzypczak
Danuta Kaczmarek
Secretary: Urszula Mińska-Marciniak
CONFERENCE TOPICS
1. Translations and specialized languages.
2. Multiculturalism and its language.
3. Specialized languages and multimedia communication.
4. Exercises of specialized language skills.
5. Pedagogical aspects of teaching specialized languages.
6. Forms of training in teaching specialized languages.
7. Teaching specialized languages - quo vadis?
8. Communicative aspects in teaching specialized languages.
9. National and foreign language associations - goals and meaning.
CONFERENCE PLAN
Friday 06.06.2003
12.00-13.30 - Registration
14.00-15.00 - Lunch
15.00-15.15 - Conference opening
15.15-16.00 - New trends in glottodidactics
16.00-16.30 - Coffee
16.30-17.15 - Latin path in Europe
17.15-17.30 - Discussion
18.00 - Dinner by the bonfire
Saturday 07.06.2003
8.30-9.15 - Breakfast
10.30-10.50 - ESP (Professional English) in the Department of Architecture
10.50-11.10 - The role of context in understanding language functions in e-mail business
11.10-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-11.50 - Case study in ESP didactics
11.50-12.10 - Workshops
12.15-13.45 - Workshops
14.00-15.00 - Lunch
15.00-16.00 - Workshops
16.00-16.20 - Mindmapping in teaching and learning specialized languages
16.20-16.40 - Program basis for foreign language courses at higher education institutions in Poland (workshops)
16.40-17.10 - Workshops
17.10-17.30 - Coffee
17.30-17.50 - Teaching selected ESP with an almost complete lack of ready-made didactic materials - author's experience
17.50-18.10 - Changes in the Department of Foreign Languages at PUT
18.10-18.30 - Workshops
18.30-18.50 - Problem solving in teaching ESP ("Business Basics")
18.50-19.10 - Some aspects of the procedural area of ESP syllabus. English for Office Professionals
19.10-19.30 - Discussion
19.45 - Dinner
Sunday 08.06.2003
8.30-9.15 - Breakfast
Suffering from mathematical phobia? Practising LSP skills
9.50-10.20 - Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Fremdsppachenunterricht
10.20-10.40 - Help! I have to teach ESP!
10.40-11.15 - Coffee
11.15-11.35 - Cross-Cultural Considerations in Practising Writing Skills
11.35-11.55 - Language auditing: a new qualification
12.20-12.40 - LSP studies? Quo vadis?
12.40-13.00 - Discussion
13.00-13.15 - Closing
13.30-14.30 - Lunch