Jarmila Horváthová - Introduction
THE FUNCTIONS AND ROLES OF MASS MEDIA IN THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
The Additional Teaching Materials to the Coursebook
New Insights into Business
by G. Tullis and T. Trappe
In the present period of the information society the usage of mass media, multimedia and telematic media in the teaching/learning process should be an inseparable part of the education. The objective of their application is a higher effectiveness of the teaching process, students` ability of learning by involving more senses, the acquisition of the habits of the autonomous learning and also the immediate contact with the real life outside the school or university.
We have chosen the selected texts from the web sites, corresponding with the particular topics of units, based on the recommendations of the teacher`s book. We have elaborated exercises referring to the texts. These exercises are focused on the development of the skill of reading comprehension as well as the lexical tasks. The types of the exercises are following: matching, asking and answering questions, true – false exercises, looking for the synonyms and opposites in the texts, word formation etc.
The main goal of this Internet portal is to enrich the range of the exercises of the above mentioned textbook and to unlock the tasks to anybody, who wants to improve the language competence.