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Graded Readers in Foreign Language Teaching
JANOVSKÁ, Martina
This diploma thesis focuses on literature and how to implement it in teaching a foreign language. The theoretical chapters discuss the teaching of Czech language and literature, reading literacy and also the teaching of a foreign languages in the Czech Republic. Moreover, they deal with the use of literary texts in teaching foreign languages, the advantages and disadvantages of authentic texts and simplified foreign language texts, as well as the possibilities of using these texts in practice. Last but not least, there is a chapter on Montessori pedagogy and its basic concepts and approaches, as well as the approach of this pedagogy to English language teaching. In the practical part, this thesis focuses on simplified foreign language literature. It deals with research of popular books in this category and their subsequent analysis, research among students, which focuses on what students like to read and how is a foreign language text in teaching perceived by an English teacher. The last point of the practical part is the processing of original story based on all information form the research.
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