The Challenging New Role for Language Teachers

Abstract

In the contribution the author deals with the new role of the teachers for English for Specific Purposes at the tertiary educational institutions, who at present times have to become not only the teachers and practitioners of language courses, but also the facilitators of interdisciplinary cooperation among the subject-specific departments at the Faculty as well as the supporters of the internationalisation of their institution. The author puts forward an insight into the situation of teaching English for Specific Purposes in Slovakia and at the Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava.