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Motivation of Primary School Students for English Language Studies
Piňosová, Bohdana ; Mojžíšová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Prokop, Jiří (referee)
Currently, there are relatively few studies that focus on the motivation to learn foreign languages in children. This diploma thesis focuses on the attitude of primary school students towards the teaching of English. The theoretical part follows the concept of motivation from the point of view of psychology, pedagogy and current researches on foreign language teaching. The purpose of the practical part was to investigate their motivation to learn English and what aspects of teaching can demotivate them. The goal was to record, analyze, evaluate and interpret the obtained data. The research was conducted at a smaller elementary school in Prague, where English language instruction begins in the third grade. Data were obtained by a novel questionnaire with both open and closed questions. The analysis was then performed using mixed research. The quantitative part of the analysis, which monitored the popularity of the subject of English and the assessment of the attractiveness of individual activities in teaching, was carried out first. The qualitative part of the teaching, using open questions, sought answers to the reasons why the teaching is popular or not popular and what motivates the pupils to learn English. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that the majority of pupils perceive the...
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Use of media in English lessons in Czechia
Procházková, Pavla ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis, entitled "Use of Media in English Lessons in the Czech Republic" is to evaluate the use of old, classic and new media in teaching English in Czech primary and secondary schools, as well as in private lessons conducted by English language tutors. In the first part, the work introduces old and new media in the Czech education system and individual types of new media, presents historical media used for teaching English in our countries, provides an overview of the media used at the present time and, above all, introduces websites and applications developed for teaching English. The results of recent studies dedicated to the investigated issue are also presented. The research objective of the practical part is the analysis of the answers of 50 educators obtained using a questionnaire survey, answers to questions regarding the use of old and new media in the teaching of the English language, namely in the time before the coronavirus pandemic, in the time of distance learning during the pandemic and now, as well as qualitative research of the most used new media tools in English lessons. The research methods are literature searches, qualitative research methods, questionnaire surveys and analysis of questionnaire survey results using quantitative and qualitative research...
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Ways of Using Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Teaching English
JIRKŮ, Dana
Abstract Diploma thesis describes methodical ways of using Lewis Carroll´s Alice in Wonderland. The structure of the thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with using literature in teaching foreign languages. It describes the life and work of Lewis Carroll, defines teaching of literature and describes the methods of drama teaching in foreign languages. Practical part contains a complete drama and some techniques used for the literary work. A DVD film of the drama Alice in Wonderland is an insertion of the thesis.
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Comparison of ELT methods used in a bilingual preschool and a language preschool
Wirnitzerová, Jitka ; Žďárek, Karel (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
This bachelor thesis is aimed at comparing ELT methods based on analysis of observed lessons in a bilingual and language preschool, which focus on teaching English. The theoretical part describes eight teaching methods generally used in the teaching process and characterizes their main principles. The explanation of terms method, approach, technique and principle is included in this part as well. The practical part contains description of individual observed lessons and analyses the application of ELT methods put in practice. The outcomes of the study are based on frequency of accurence of the teaching methods. Further, the results of observations in both preschools are subjected to mutual comparison.
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Multicultural Education
HESSOVÁ, Lenka
In my work I address the needs rooting in the ongoing process of systematic efforts to improve the Czech educational system. Mainly, I focus on the question of how to implement the cross-curricular topic Multicultural Education into English language classes at lower and upper secondary schools. As Multicultural Education, along with the other cross-curricular topics, has become an obligatory and essential part of the reformed Czech curricula. I am employed with the English Department at the Faculty of Education of The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. That is why I aim to introduce the theoretical background and history of the cross-curricular topic Multicultural Education in the Czech educational system. Then, based on that theoretical background, I shall design and run a course at the Pedagogical faculty for our students (teachers-to-be) that will provide them with sufficient amount of theory. Within the course the students will be given enough practical examples of the implementation of Multicultural Education into English classes when combining cultural and linguistic aims and at the end of the course I will allow the students to design and try such a class during their peer teaching. I will also publish the results of the course for all in-service teachers (the lesson plans prepared by students) on a well-known site called Metodický portál RVP.CZ (Methodological Gateway).
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The Cross-curricular topic Multicultural Education in English classes
Hessová, Lenka ; Betáková, Lucie (advisor) ; Hanušová, Světlana (referee) ; Černá, Monika (referee)
Abstract In our dissertation we address the needs rooting in the ongoing process of systematic efforts to improve the Czech educational system. Mainly, we focus on the question of how to implement the cross-curricular topic Multicultural Education into English language classes at lower and upper secondary schools. As Multicultural Education, along with the other cross-curricular topics, has become an obligatory and essential part of the reformed Czech curricula. The author of this dissertation is employed with the English Department at the Faculty of Education of The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. That is why we aim to introduce the theoretical background and history of the cross-curricular topic Multicultural Education in the Czech educational system. Then, based on that theoretical background, we shall design and run a course at the Pedagogical faculty for our students (teachers-to-be) that will provide them with sufficient amount of theory. Within the course the students will be given enough practical examples of the implementation of Multicultural Education into English classes when combining cultural and linguistic aims and at the end of the course we will allow the students to design and try such a class during their peer teaching. We will also publish the results of the course for...
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Comparison of ELT methods used in a bilingual preschool and a language preschool
Wirnitzerová, Jitka ; Žďárek, Karel (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
This bachelor thesis is aimed at comparing ELT methods based on analysis of observed lessons in a bilingual and language preschool, which focus on teaching English. The theoretical part describes eight teaching methods generally used in the teaching process and characterizes their main principles. The explanation of terms method, approach, technique and principle is included in this part as well. The practical part contains description of individual observed lessons and analyses the application of ELT methods put in practice. The outcomes of the study are based on frequency of accurence of the teaching methods. Further, the results of observations in both preschools are subjected to mutual comparison.
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