% -*-text-*-
% 0-Intro.tex
%
% Author: Pekka Nikander <pnr@ngs.fi>
%
% Created: Sun May  5 07:33:15 1991 pnr
% Last modified: Mon May  6 22:28:09 1991 pnr
%

\chapter*{Foreword}

This publication has been made by the students in my Computer English
Course (Kie-90-309) at the Language Centre, Helsinki University of
Tech\-nol\-o\-gy during the Spring term, 1991.

As there is a dearth of good, up-to-date, ready-made teaching material
in this area, the students were reluctant to use a course book.  They
preferred to make a presentation each and to try and produce some
written work which could perhaps be used for teaching purposes later.
As the course was very short (27 hours or 1 study week) they only had
time to write one paper each and a glossary.  The idea is that future
stundets will use these articles as a basis for discussion in groups
in the classroom.  I hope I shall have the opportunity to use this
material, and in the near future, to make suitable exercises and
recort the difficult words and phrases for pronunciation practice.

There is no copyright on this material but I hope that any interested
users will contact me and give me ideas for improving and adding to
this work.  Any kind of co-operation is welcome.

\vskip 2cm
{\it Address for correspondence:}

\begin{tabular}{l@{\quad\quad}l}
Language Centre & 			Ruth Vilmi	\\
Helsinki University of Technology &	Phone: +358-0-451 4292 \\
Otakaari 1 &				Fax: +358-0-465077 \\
02150 ESPOO &				Internet: rvilmi@hila.hut.fi \\
Finland & \ \\
\end{tabular}
