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Influence of Student Needs on Designing Course Content
Linhartová, Yveta ; Rýdl, Karel (advisor) ; Píšová, Michaela (referee) ; Chvál, Martin (referee)
The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to foreign language teaching methodology based on the practical skills acquired by the author in the course of her classroom-centered lecturing environment in English at the Faculty of Transport, Pardubice University. To be able to sufficiently complete the above objective, a lecturer must implement up-to-date teaching methods; in other words, s/he has to pursue the learner-centered approach to teaching. The paper is divided into two main parts. The first deals with the characteristic features of the learner-centered language acquisition methodology approach (in which the core of the teaching is a student's need). This part focuses on the fundamentals of language teaching focused on the professional needs of technically orientated students. In the second part the author seeks to verify several hypotheses in the process of defending the thesis that a language teacher's reflection on a learner's language learning 'needs analysis' impacts significantly on certain aspects of language teaching. The first chapter examines the theory of teaching objectives in terms of the relation objective - contents - method. In the second chapter, the author succinctly portrays the essence of applied linguistics as a theoretical framework for the presented topic. An...

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