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Reading and Vocabulary Development
Zusková, Markéta ; Skopečková, Eva (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present the results of research summarizing relevant literature and other resources dealing with the problem of vocabulary presentation, memorization and practice in an English language classroom using a reading text, taking into account the role of age in this process. The outcome of this research is reflected through the classroom-based research, i.e. the execution of practical experimental lessons which are aimed at two different age groups and compare the rate of success of vocabulary memorization using identical classroom procedure for both target groups. The results are then evaluated and justified m the final summary. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Aspects of L2 Literature Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom in the Context of Grammar School Curriculum Reform
Skopečková, Eva ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Betáková, Lucie (referee) ; Mánek, Bohuslav (referee)
The present dissertation examines certain crucial issues in the field of literature teaching and the use of literature in the foreign language classroom. In particular, it focuses on the specific aspects of the didactics of English literature in the context of the current trends and changes of the Czech grammar school curriculum. Therefore, it explores the relation of literature and education, the question of interpretation and reception of a literary work in connection with the foreign language classroom, which is currently influenced by the new curricular documents. At the research level, the dissertation attempts to find a potentially ideal combination of the disciplines related to this field, i.e. literary scholarship, EFL methodology as well as the outcomes and intentions of the new curricular documents, and searches for new possibilities of the optimal use of English literature in the EFL classroom. The theoretical section consists of three main chapters that correspond to the three main theoretical grounds of the dissertation reflecting the above mentioned disciplines. At first the focus is given to the role of literature in education, its specific position in the foreign language classroom and to the introduction of the basic principles of reception theory and Wolfgang Iser's approach to the...
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Reading and Vocabulary Development
Zusková, Markéta ; Skopečková, Eva (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present the results of research summarizing relevant literature and other resources dealing with the problem of vocabulary presentation, memorization and practice in an English language classroom using a reading text, taking into account the role of age in this process. The outcome of this research is reflected through the classroom-based research, i.e. the execution of practical experimental lessons which are aimed at two different age groups and compare the rate of success of vocabulary memorization using identical classroom procedure for both target groups. The results are then evaluated and justified m the final summary. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Encounters with Otherness in E. M. Forster's A Room With a View and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl
Skopečková, Eva ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
In my dissertation, I examine encounters with otherness in E. M. Förster's A Room With a View and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl. Primarily, I focus on the development of the main protagonists, which is influenced by such a sudden encounter. I also discuss the particular views of the two writers concerning this issue. In both books, Forster and Lawrence dramatize their belief in the great potential of southern emotionality and suggest a sort of solution to the dehumanized and stiff life of the English middle classes, which the writers severely criticised. In both novels, Forster as well as Lawrence choose Italy as the representation of the great potential of the Southern nations and they place it against the criticised stiffness and sterility of the English middle classes. The portrayal of this southern element, however, differs in several aspects in the respective books. What is more, the conception of otherness appears in various forms in both works, reflecting their author's approaches. The depiction of the development of Forster's and Lawrence's heroines actually demonstrates their author's beliefs in a possible way for a young middle class woman oppressed by social conventions and values towards her inmost feelings and passions on the grounds of an encounter with otherness. Moreover, there is another...
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