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Teaching mathematics in Italian
Basile, Marco ; Novotná, Jarmila (advisor) ; Moraová, Hana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the teaching of mathematics in Italian language in the bilingual Italian-Czech section of Grammar School Ústavní in Prague, the Czech Republic, where I have been teaching since 2012. The main aim of this work is to analyse and systematize the positives and negatives of the bilingual teaching of mathematics in this environment. The most important problems and challenges, a teacher has to deal with while teaching mathematics in Italian, the language different from pupils' mother tongue, are introduced in this work. All the used and illustrating examples are based on my own practical training of an Italian Math teacher and are taken within one school year. Moreover, these examples are supported by my own problem solving options. The thesis also contains reflections about results of the bilingual teaching of mathematics both in mathematical and linguistic terms. Theoretical part deals with a general description of bilingualism, bilingual teaching of mathematics, and bilingual Grammar School Ústavní. Practical part describes not only the main differences between curriculums, textbooks, and mathematical assessments in Italy and the Czech Republic but also the course of school year 2016/2017 in classes 3.C and 4.C. The description is based on both the analysis of lessons of...
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