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Teaching mediation in the foreign language classroom
Komendová, Gabriela ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (referee)
The paper Teaching mediation in the foreign language classroom concerns itself with mediation as one of the communicative activities or modes of communication defined by the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages' Companion Volume and the possibilities of teaching mediation as part of teaching foreign languages, French in particular. Its principal aims are to familiarise language teachers and other language education professionals with the essentials of mediation and to provide teachers with a mediation task creating manual including mediation- oriented lesson plans for French language teaching. The theoretical part of the paper deals with how mediation is represented in the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages and in the Companion Volume, as well as with mediation tasks, their characteristics, types, and the parameters that need to be considered when planning mediation teaching. The practical part consists of two stages. The first is an analysis of mediation tasks published in various contemporary French language textbooks based on criteria established in the theoretical part of the paper. The other describes mediation-oriented French lessons taught on the basis of lesson plans designed as part of the present thesis to four groups of secondary school students with varying...
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World language French a its current importance in the European Union
Růžičková, Kateřina ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (advisor) ; Müllerová, Eva (referee)
The thesis represents the position of French language on international scene, its role in the formation of patriotism of French nation and its development within the European Union. This thesis is concerned with the reasons which raised French language to an international and diplomatic language and which led to the weakening of its influence in the world. The thesis analyzes the language policy of France and institutions supporting the francophonie which care for protection and maintenance of French in the European and worldwide bases. Not least, there is outlined the importance of French language in the process of European integration and its current mission in the institutions of European Union.
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French Language within the Czech Education Environment 1847-1948
Prošková, Alena ; Radimská, Jitka (advisor) ; Králová, Jana (referee) ; Kyloušková, Hana (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: FRENCH LANGUAGE WITHIN THE CZECH EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT 1847 -1948 The objective of this dissertation thesis is to analyse the position of French language as a regular school subject taught in the Czech education environment, with focus on the era of the years 1847 - 1948. This interval was chosen intentionally to demonstrate the development and transformation of the position of French language, from the time it appeared in school curriculum as an obligatory subject, through the golden age of Francophony in the interwar Czechoslovakia of the 1930s, up until the year 1948 when the structure of taught foreign languages changed and French language lost its significant position due to the changes in political regime and the post-February policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The thesis is divided into three theoretical sections which represent different points of view on period French language teaching. The initial section includes characteristics of the Czech education environment with regard to the specific types of public schools where it was taught, as well as references to the most significant education reforms which were shaping the school system during the period concerned. The aim of the opening section is to answer the question of where and under which...
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History and the present of Algeria and the development of the French language
Landová, Adéla ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Machleidtová, Silva (referee)
Title of the thesis: The history and the present of Algeria and the development of the French language Keywords: Algeria, arabization, Arabian, Berber, French language, history, colonization, Maghreb, nationalism, independency, present, education Abstract: Algeria, the second largest country in Africa, is a part of an area called Maghreb. As well as other Maghreb countries, also Algeria has been influenced by the French colonization in the beginning of the 19th century. Not only did the colonization change the Algerian community, it mainly resulted in the introduction of the French language which is used in Algeria till this day. The target of this bachelor thesis is to outline the history and the present of this country, the development of the French and other languages such as Arabian and Berber, and also to comment on the development of the education system in Algeria. This bachelor thesis is divided into three main chapters that are chronologically arranged and that start with studying the history of Algeria. After that, they deal with the question of language in each particular historical period. The first chapter describes Maghreb from its furthest history up to the French colonization. The second chapter aims at the period of the French supremacy in Algeria and the last one chapter studies...
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Problematic Types of Tasks in the Listening Comprehension Part of the Didactic Test of the State Secondary School-leaving Examination in French Language
Fejková, Alžběta ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klinka, Tomáš (referee)
The topic of this thesis are problematic types of test items in the listening sub test of the didactic test of common part of Maturita school - leaving exam in French language. Introductory chapter of the theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the description of Maturita school-leaving exam, its origin and contemporary model. The following chapters deal with characteristics of the didactic test, its parts and individual test items. These chapters also provide a description of the examined sample, concise characteristics of grammar schools (Gymnasiums) where the research was conducted, and introduces the analytical tools which were used when examining the listening subtest in French language. On the basis of students' answers the most difficult test items of the sub test were pinpointed. KEYWORDS: didactic test, listening sub test, French language, Maturita school-leaving exam, state high school leaving exam, test item
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Motivation to study french language at the high school
Černá, Klára ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the motivation of students at high school to study french language. The aim is to discover how is possible to motivate students in french language teaching. The thesis consists of the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part describes motivation to study french from the point of view of her three main components: learning, social environment of school and character of french language. The practical part has research form and explores what motivate students at high school to study french, compares motivation for this language at elementary school contrary to high school and compares english to french at high school. The main explored aspects of motivation in research part were: the reasons to study, measure of motivation, teaching environment, surrounding environment of french language, forms of teaching, social influence and barriers in studying french language. I collected the knowledge for the topic by questionnaire survey at Grammar school in Ústí nad labem, at Grammar school in Děčín, at Elementary school school Nativity in Děčín. Discovered finding out in summary of research results are verbally evaluated and interpreted with visual graphs accompaniment. I present the aims of research finding out in section results of aims in research. I...
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French ordinals in diachronic perspective
Chovanová, Lucie ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
Numerals in French language represent very rich and to a large extent complicated grammatical system. This thesis focuses on the ordinal numerals which represent a very interesting subject of research, especially in terms of their historical development. As a preface to this problematics, we will, at first, generally characterize numerals in contemporary French normative grammar, explain their classification and then further focus on the cardinals and ordinals that are closely related from a diachronic point of view. This BA thesis aims to explain the development and functioning of ordinal numbers in French from their Latin origins to the present and also their specifics. Using the Frantext, we will illustrate the competition between different forms of ordinal numbers as well as their competition with the cardinals. Numeral "the second" with its two forms: second and deuxième, represents a specific case in this category. Its usage requires certain rules, which are however not always respected. By the means of a questionnaire designed for native speakers, we will try to analyze this phenomenon and consider whether the ordinals represent a category in decline.
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Occurence and analysis of past tenses in the work of contemporary French author
Sedlmeier, Aleš ; Müllerová, Eva (advisor) ; Jančík, Jiří (referee)
TITLE: Occurrence and analysis of past tenses in the work of contemporary French author AUTHOR: Aleš Sedlmeier DEPARTMENT: Department of French Language and Literature SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Eva Müllerová, Csc. ABSTRACT: This work in the field of French linguistics gives a partial view of the system of past tenses in French, and their use in the work of contemporary French writer. It is divided into two main parts, theoretical part and a practical part, which are complemented by an introduction and a conclusion summarizing the results of the analysis. In the theoretical part, the author first outlines the relationship between the perception of time and language, and then presents the different past tenses by studying mainly French and Czech linguists. For each tense they are presented the characteristics and uses of the abundant number of examples. The practical part is devoted to analysis of the use of past tenses in three selected works of French writer. There is emphasized ratio of occurrences in different works and how they use. Based on the analysis drawn appropriate partial conclusions about the current application of past tenses in literary writing. KEYWORDS: French language The system of the past tenses Language and Time Frédéric Beigbeder
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