|
|
Foreign language aptitude of pupils with learning disabilities at the beginning of the foreign language acquisition at the elementary school
Špačková, Klára ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee) ; Pešatová, Ilona (referee)
The dissertation is dealing with the issue of foreign language aptitude and foreign language abilities of pupils with learning disabilities at the beginning of the foreign language acquisition. The first part of the work describes general theories of the foreign language acquisition and introduces the current trends in education of pupils with learning disabilities in the process of foreign language learning. The second part of the work describes the research, which aim was to investigate the quality and the devlepoment of the foreing language aptitude of the pupils with learning disabilities during the first year of foreign language study at the elementary school. Foreign language aptitude and foreign language abilities were compared with foreign language achievement and with native language and reading skills. Key words: foreign language aptitude, foreign language abilities, phonological skills, specific learning disabilities, components of language
|
|
|
Comprehension of reaging
Rabenhauptová, Lucie ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused to the reading comprehension of the second class pupils at a primary school. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part presents the basic concepts of mapping the issues, such as reading, literacy, reading comprehension; there are also introduced the educational methods (the analytic-synthetic and genetic) and the diagnostic techniques for determining the grade of the reading comprehension in pedagogical-psychological counseling. The ending of this part was dedicated the project Three-level model of care and the results of diagnostic screenings of reading analyzed in the works of P. Barešová (2009, 2010). The target of the practical part was the analysis of resulst of the second class pupils from new created Test of reading comprehension (Pokorná, Wolfová, Kucharská, in Kucharská, 2011). Three types of tasks (such as labeling borders words, fill in missing words in the text and making decision of the claims, whether they are true, in relation to the picture). The data collection was made in the project - Three-level model of care carried out by IPPP ČR (There was involved 345 pupils from 7 primary schools from three parts of Czech Republic - Prague, Central and South Bohemian Region and Moravia). The conducted analysis of...
|
|
| |
|
|
Influence of Vojta therapy on the development of a child with physical handicap
Průšová, Anna ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the influence of physiotherapy on the development of a child with a physical disability. It focuses on Vojta's method, its origin and characteristics, description of exercises and assumptions that lead to a successful course of therapy. Moreover a chapter on the motor development of a child up to one year will be added. We also introduce Prof. MUDr. Václav Vojta himself, his study and work. The aim of the work is to find out what effect physiotherapy has on a child not only on physical but also mental development. What is the family's approach to rehabilitation routine. All this will be answered through qualitative research. In our research we use questionnaire and interview method. The work is therefore focused on two perspectives, one of which is perspective of families with a child undergoing Vojta's method and the other is perspective of rehabilitation specialist who is daily in direct confrontation with the demanding exercises and difficulties that are part of Vojta's method. KEYWORDS physiotherapy, Václav Vojta, Vojta's therapy, family, Parent-child relationship
|
|
|
The phenomenon of The Highly Sensitive People
Čermáková, Karolína ; Valentová, Hana (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of The Highly Sensitive People. It focuses on the characteristics of The Highly Sensitive individuals and how the trait manifests itself in different areas of life such as experience, perception, thinking, in the environment of social interaction, etc. The task of the bachelor's thesis is to outline the perspective of The Highly Sensitive People with this feature and provide relevant information related to the phenomenon. The theoretical part of the work is devoted to the description of the sensory processing sensivity and describes the historical development of the concept and the development of a test tool. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with the characteristics of The Highly Sensitive individuals. It describes the manifestation of the feature in the field of mental health and in the field of social interaction and explains the D.O.E.S model associating the basic characteristics of the feature. The research part describes the research objectives, established research questions and methodologies. Subsequently, the results of the analysis are presented. Furthermore, the research questions are answered and other research findings are described. Finally, a discussion and conclusion follow. KEYWORDS The Highly Sensitive People, sensory processing...
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
Sibling Relationships of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Parental perspective
Pospíšilová, Anna ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the sibling relationships of children with autism spectrum disorder from the perspective of parents. The theoretical part defines the concept of autism spectrum disorders, its historical development, etiology and the main areas in which autism spectrum disorders manifest themselves. The following chapter deals with a family with a child with autism spectrum disorders and the main problems these families face. The third chapter first describes the characteristics of sibling relationships, sibling rivalry and sibling constellations, then the chapter deals with the specifics of the sibling relationship with a child with a disability and the impact of autism spectrum disorders on the sibling relationship. Last but not least, the possibilities of supporting healthy siblings are briefly outlined. The empirical part presents the research, which was carried out using a questionnaire survey. Research goals and questions, research methodology and characteristics of the research sample are presented. The results are first presented using descriptive data analysis, then correlation analysis, more specifically Spearman's correlation coefficient, was used to verify the established hypotheses. In the discussion, the results are placed in a broader context by comparison with the...
|
|
|
Pupil 's learning style and its role in the process of foreign language acquisition for younger school-age pupils
Smolíková, Kateřina ; Špačková, Klára (advisor) ; Valentová, Hana (referee)
Učební styl žáka a jeho role v procesu osvojování slovní zásoby v cizím jazyce u žáků mladšího školního věku Kateřina Smolíková ABSTRACT The thesis deals with learning styles and their role in the process of vocabulary acquisition. The theoretical part characterizes the basic concepts associated with learning styles, their typology and the history of their research, their diagnostics and pedagogical application. Furthermore, some previous research concerning the effectiveness of respecting the student's learning styles in teaching is mapped here. The practical part describes a research survey, which aims to identify students' learning styles and compare the level of acquired vocabulary depending on the way in which the new vocabulary was presented to students. The comparison of the level of acquired vocabulary took place in three groups, whose learning style preferences differed from each other. It was a visual-verbal and kinesthetic-aural group and a group of students without a preference for learning style. At the same time, the practical part also analyzes the percentage composition of the preferences of learning styles of individual respondents and compares their results with their preferences. KEYWORDS learning style, VARK questionnaire, younger school age, vocabulary acquisition, foreign language
|
|
|
Well-being in relation to teaching methods and school achievements of elementary students
Janotová, Eliška ; Špačková, Klára (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee)
This work presents the topic of well-being, also called mental health, in connection with the school education in the primary school. Well-being is becoming more and more current topis as it is turning out that well-being in school can affect students' attitude to learning and school in general, even their school results. In the theoretical part, the term well-being is introduced from more different perspectives, definitions are being introduced used for different purposes and focusing on diverse aspects of well-being. Researches investigating well-being particularly in the primary school are presented, also programs promoting well-being by children and the connection of well-being with behaviour of students' feelings, school results and the teacher's attitude. Further the role of well-being in children's education and taking it into consideration in curriculum of different countries is presented and the situation of involving students' well-being in the practice at the primary school. The practical part presents results of a questionnaire survey, aimed at comparison of the degree of well-being in three classes of fifth graders at the primary school with a different approach of the teacher to teaching and managing the class. At the same time, relationship between well- being and school results of...
|
guest ::
RSS feed.