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Teachers of Czech Language as a Foreign Language for Pre-School Children
Vilímová, Tereza ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
The M. A. thesis concerns with teaching Czech as foreign language for pre-school children. The main aim of thesis is current situation of teaching Czech as foreign language for pre- school children with respect to teachers who perform this teaching, primarily to the qualifications of teachers, the approaches and the methods which they choose and the teaching materials which they use. The first part of thesis deals firstly with significance of teaching Czech as foreign language for pre-school children then with education teachers of Czech as foreign language for pre- school children and finally with pre-school children as target group of teaching foreign language and Czech as foreign language. In the chapter about methodology we describe chosen qualitative methods of research and course of the research. The empirical part of thesis is divided into three parts, in the first one are presented the research data from the semi-structured interviews in Prague and the results of qualitative analysis of materials which are used by teachers. In the second part are described the research data from semi-structured interviews from Czech School without Borders in. The next part deals with comparison of these data. Key words Czech as a foreign language, pre-school education, child-foreigner, foreign language in...
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Pre-reading period and development of early reading abilities in family environment
Matulová, Kristýna ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Kuzmičová, Anežka (referee)
The submitted diploma degree thesis deals with the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The aim of this thesis is to find out which ideas about developing early reading skills parents have and how they build pre-reading skills in their children. The thesis is also focused on parent-child communication and child's vocabulary. The theoretical part defines basic terms relevant to the topic of reading and literacy. It offers characteristics of a pre-school child and his development in areas which are related to pre-reading literacy. The particularization of the term of pre-reading literacy and activities supporting literacy skills are presented as well.It defines the concept of family communication and child-directed speech. The final chapter of the theoretical part describes previous research that has been conducted in this field in the past. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the study of research literature and crucial research. The practical part is devoted to an empirical study. It consists of five case studies which are focused on the analysis of video recordings connected to the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The video recordings were anonymized and, with slight deviations, transcribed according to the CHAT system, which is a part of...
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The development of verbal and non-verbal communication of a child with Down syndrome
Homolková, Kamila ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Slančová, Daniela (referee) ; Nováková Schöffelová, Miroslava (referee)
KEY WORDS Down syndrome, Language, Verbal Communication, Non-verbal Communication, Intellectual Disability, Bilingualism Homolková, Kamila (2021). Process of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of a Child with Down Syndrome [dissertation thesis]. Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication. ABSTRACT This dissertation thesis focuses on the process of development of verbal and nonverbal communication of a child with the Down syndrome. Its goal is to analyse, how language and speech are acquired in this atypically developing child, and on this base, supported by findings from previous published research, to describe the acquisition of all language levels - semantics, comprehension, pragmatics, and nonverbal means of communication. One part of this thesis is formed by an analysis of the bilingual (Czech and German) situation of the child. The main method employed is a longitudinal observation of early communication behaviour of the child (in the age from 24 to 48 months) and an analysis of video recordings; the parents' diaries are used as well.
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Verbal communication between teachers and students at secondary school (Dialogue in lesson of Czech language)
Komárková, Linda ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Homolková, Kamila (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze verbal communication between teachers and students in Czech language lessons at secondary schools. It focuses on dialogue. The thesis in the theoretical part summarizes the relevant existing knowledge about school communication. It focuses on the verbal communication of teachers and students and deals with the typical communication structure used in school teaching. Information from the theoretical part of the thesis is also confronted with the main conclusions of the practical part of the thesis. The practical part of the thesis analyzes communication in Czech language lessons, based on five recordings of communication between teachers and students at secondary schools. The thesis analyzes and characterizes verbal communication of teachers and students during the lesson and deals with the communication structure that appears in these lessons - questions from teachers, answers of students and feedback from teachers. The individual lesson analyzes are finally compared.
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Lexical retrieval in Russian-Czech bilingual speakers
Maslova, Alexandra ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The present thesis is devoted to the lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers in their first language, specifically Russian-speaking individuals living in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to follow up on previous foreign and Czech studies, focusing on the lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers. Such lexical acquisition is slower in their first language than the acquisition of comparable monolingual individuals. In the theoretical part, the thesis discusses the concepts of bilingualism, lexical deficit and language dominance, and presents an analysis of several recent foreign and Czech studies on the topic of lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers. In next part, we introduce the Russian-speaking community in the Czech Republic and the speech behaviour of this minority in the Czech Republic. The core of the thesis is a sophisticated experimental research design, which includes a verbal fluency test, a picture naming task and a questionnaire survey. The pre- survey for the picture naming task was conducted with participation of 243 respondents whose mother tongue is Russian. The output of the paper is a design of an experiment that can be followed up by further research. Keywords bilingualism, lexical acquisition, linguistic dominance, Russian-speaking community in the Czech Republic
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Specifics of Oral Production and Storytelling of Bilingual Children
Tichá, Magdaléna ; Šormová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The thesis focuses on an analysis of oral expression and methods of narration of Czech-English bilingual children in the age of 8-10 years. The children who became the subjects of the study are children living in the UK who have one or both parents Czech native speakers. Czech is used to varying degrees in the family communication of these children. The aim of the thesis is to map the means of expression and methods used in the narration and the specifics of the oral production of bilingual speakers. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the analysis of professional literature, the core of the research part is the collected data in the form of audio recordings of pupils of the 3rd year of Czech School Manchester. The children told stories on the basis of the presented visual support in the form of pictures, in both Czech and English. The acquired recordings were subsequently analysed in terms of morphological, syntactic, lexical and other phenomena related to bilingualism. The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was used to analyse the narrative structure. The result of the case study is a summary of the tendencies that could be observed within the collected material.
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Garden-path sentences processing in high-school students with Czech as a native language
Ceháková, Markéta ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The presented thesis focuses on garden-path sentence processing in Czech and follows the line of research within the good-enough approach to language comprehension. Some studies within this framework suggest that, after a garden-path sentence is reanalysed, a full and complete syntactic representation is formed, but the system fails to prune the initial misanalysis completely (Slattery et al., 2013; Qian et al., 2017). However, the research of garden-path sentences within the good-enough approach stems from a limited number of syntactic structures. This thesis presents a series of three self-paced reading experiments employing open-ended comprehension questions that aim to test if the conclusions of Slattery et al. (2013) can also be applied to syntactic structures that have not yet been examined within this framework, namely senteces such as "Roztržitý kastelán zamkl průvodkyni na nádvoří koloběžku.". The results are only partially in accordance with the hypothesis. The lingering misanalysis effect was shown only for the sentences with an animate object (these sentences were generally harder to process). Sentences with an inanimate object, that are easier to analyse, show no difference in response accuracy in comparison with similar unambiguous sentences. Keywords: garden-path sentences,...
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Communication of pupils of older school-age during group work
Brabcová, Pavlína ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Kuzmičová, Anežka (referee)
This diploma thesis examines mutual communication of older school-age pupils during group work within Czech language lessons. In theoretical part, we define fundamental terms and introduce related theoretical work aimed to communication, group education, and adolescent period. The latter part consists of transcripted recordings analyses. Recordings were acquired during group work within Czech language lessons. Last part of the thesis compares the recording analyses. Key words communication, pupil, group work, group, education, older school-age, Czech
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Communication of children with autism spectrum disorder (older school age)
Matějková, Veronika ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Homolková, Kamila (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on communication of children of older school age with autism spectrum disorder. The first part of the thesis, the theoretical part, introduces basic concepts related to autism spectrum disorder and its types and is based on information from scientific literature. The second part of the thesis, the analytical part, presents the analysis of communication of two children of older school age with autism spectrum disorder and the comparison of their communication. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with children and is focused on typical features of communication of the children on individual language levels. Children's legal representatives gave an informed consent that the interviews may be recorded and used anonymously as data for the bachelor's thesis. Keywords Autism spectrum disorder, older school-age, Czech, communication
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Communication in a Scouting group
Nováková, Klára ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Lehečková, Eva (referee)
The submitted bachelor's thesis focuses on communication between and scout leaders and between children in the scout unit. The theoretical part of the thesis presents concepts related to communication and communication with children in leisure time. This part is mainly based on the study of scientific literature. In the second, practical, part it is analysed how the communication in the scout unit is reflected by the leaders of scout units. The material for data collection is semi-structured interviews with selected leaders. The research participants agreed to record interviews for the purposes of this bachelor's thesis. Participation in the research was voluntary.
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