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POTATOES OR POTATOES? THE FREQUENCY OF AUSTRIAZISMS IN THE MENUS OF AUSTRIAN RESTAURANTS
VÖGERLOVÁ, Katrin
The bachelor's thesis focuses on comparing the frequency of the Austrian term ("Austriacism") "Erdäpfel" versus the standard German term "Kartoffeln" in the menus of Austrian restaurants with a focus on three specific cities (the capital city of Vienna and the cities of Linz and Salzburg). The thesis not only describes the difference between standard and Austrian German, but also displays a hand - made graphic of the processed and researched results.
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scheinen + zu-infinitive Construction in Contemporary Written German and its Morphosyntactic and Lexicosemantic Features
TRÁVNÍČEK, Václav
In German language, one can find a certain range of deagentive expression possibilities. One of these possibilities is represented by the construction scheinen + infinitive construction with zu. This qualification work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part presents the morphosyntactic and lexical subsystem of contemporary German, which is related to the given construction. In the practical part, there will be an own research of the given construction using the methods of corpus linguistics based on a search in the TAGGED-T2-öffentlich corpus (Deutsches Referenzkorpus, DeReKo).
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Waldorf school teacher training for Physical education classes and German language classes.
WEISSOVÁ, Julie
The diploma thesis deals with the specifics of teacher's preparation for teaching at Waldorf school. More specifically, the author of the thesis focuses on subjects and classes of her specialization - Physical education and German language. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first, theoretical, part, the text presents and clarifies basic terms that are crucial for the topic - alternative education in a context of Waldorf school, the term of anthroposophy and finally, its founder Rudolph Steiner. In the following chapters, the author addresses the personality of the Waldorf teacher, the issue connected to the teacher-pupil relationship and, most importantly, teacher's training for Physical education classes and German language classes in Waldorf education. In the practical part, the writer concentrates on specific examples of Physical education classes and German language classes she observed at Waldorf school. Using interviews and teachers' points of view, the text examines the success of accomplishing the educational goals the teachers had set. The outcome is analysed while taking anthroposophy approach into consideration. In addition, the author applies qualitative research methods.
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Modal Particles in German and Czech. A Contrastive Analysis using the example of eben, etwa and bloß
FOUSKOVÁ, Jana
This bachelor thesis deals with issue of modality and its expression in German and Czech. The theoretical part is describing modality in both languages. These chapters deal with describing and defining German and Czech particles. There are introduced mainly modal particles that are the most important for this topic. The end of the theoretical part dedicates to express modality, modal verbs, and modal words. The Empirical part of bachelor thesis is formed by contrastive analysis of three chosen modal particles - eben, etwa and bloß. The basis for analysis was the parallel corpus Intercorp, from which documentary proofs for the above particles in German and Czech were randomly generated. On examples are introduced Czech equivalents corresponding with analysed German particles. At the end the results of contrastive analysis are compared with the equivalents of German modal particles that offer selected Czech translation dictionaries.
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Czech Employees Working Abroad and Their Knowledge of the German Language
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Eva
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to assess the German language skills of Czech citizens who have or used to have experience in working in a German speaking country. The bachelor thesis focuses on the method of learning German, how important it was to learn the German language at a primary and secondary school, if these people had attended any language courses and how much they need the German language for their job. The introduction of the theoretical part of the thesis contains information about the number of Czech people living and working abroad, the countries they work the most and about the most common jobs they do. The empirical part of the bachelor thesis is formed by a questionnaire which is focused on abovementioned issues regarding the language skills of the Czech people working abroad. The conclusion of the thesis is the evaluation of the abovementioned questionnaire and the delimitation of the areas of interest for the development of the vocabulary and their comparison with up-to-date coursebooks. There are also topics that are important for getting a job in the German speaking countries.
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Critical Points in Teaching German
MAREŠOVÁ, Anna
This diploma thesis deals with critical points of German language teaching in primary and secondary schools. The first part of the thesis is focused on the researched issues from a theoretical point of view and presents the foreign languages didactics. It further describes the German language framework educational program and related concepts that can help to understand and facilitate the solution of critical points in German language teaching. The second part presents the evaluation and analysis of 25 questionnaires obtained from the IPUP KA7 project (Innovation of teacher training for practice, CZ.02.3.68 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 16_038 / 0006960). This survey was focused on the identification of critical points from the perspective of German language teachers at primary and secondary schools. Four of these critical points are analyzed in more detail and accompanied by motivational exercises that can simplify them for teachers and students as well.
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Utilizing an interactive whiteboard to learn verbs in German lesson
Loudová, Veronika ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
The aim of this master's thesis, "Utilizing an interactive whiteboard to learn verbs in German lesson" is presented in two parts. The theoretical part is devoted to aspects which influence teaching, and therefore the preparation of interactive materials. The practical part is focused on the proposal of activities used on the interactive whiteboard. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter allows us to view the educative process from a psychological perspective, attempting to clarify the importance of relevant styles and strategies used effectively while learning a foreign language. The concern of chapter two is an interactive board and multimedia. Principles which should be followed by educators who are creating teaching materials are also introduced. Furthermore, there are presented internet portals which can be used in German lessons. The last chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to grammar and the grammatical category - verbs. The practical part is predominantly based on creating your own teaching materials, which are designed to practise German verbs. The activities are split up into two sections (for elementary school and high school). An evaluation of the teaching materials results from survey. They were verified in the educational practice.
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German Foreign Cultural Policy in the Czech Republic after 1989: Promotion of the German Language
Boťová, Kateřina ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Baštová, Petra (referee)
This thesis deals with German foreign cultural policy in the Czech Republic after 1989 in relation to the promotion of German language promotion. The thesis describes both the development of the conceptions of German foreign cultural policy and the promotion of German language based on activities of three German institutions: Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), Goethe-Institut and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The research period is divided in two parts -before 1999 and since 2000, because the thesis assumes that there have been changes concerning quantity and quality of German policy regarding language promotion since about 2000. In addition the thesis searches for the effects on the real measures in the Czech Republic concerning the conceptual changes in German policy. After the 90's when the German was promoted massively in the Czech Republic as well as in the whole region of Central and Eastern Europe, the promotion of German has been rather declining since 2000. It is given by the lowering interest in the region just as by the lower importance that was attributed to the promotion of German. Simultaneously the number of people learning German in the Czech Republic has fallen rapidly. Lately the German actors have tried to counteract this trend by renewing their effort in...
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The state of pronunciation skills of selected consonants among the students at the commencement of bachelor degree.
Kokešová, Michaela ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the ability to correctly pronounce certain German consonants. The aim of this thesis is to ascertain the pronunciation abilities of new students of German studies on the Faculty of Education of Charles University. German and Czech consonant system is thoroughly described and compared in the theoretical part of this thesis. Difficult phenomena are listed, described and analyzed by the method of auditory analysis of students' recordings in the practical part. The studied phenomena were the phone Ich-Laut in the words welcher and Veilchen, Ach- Laut in suchen, dachte, nach and macht, Ang-Laut in ging, Jünglinge, Fasching and bringt, consonantal /r/ in the words grüßten, fragten, April, elongating /h/ in ihr, blüht and geht, asipiration in Wald, schönste, April and Oktober, and assimilation in words Veilchen, wird, gelb, webt and sind. Only the assimilation of voice (not articulation) was examined. The results were classified on the scale correct-good-wrong. The most difficult was the phone Ang-Laut, because the consonants appears in Czech only as an allophone of /n/ directly before the consonants /k/ and /g/. In German it's an autonomous phone. The elongating /h/ (Dehnungs-H) was pronounced correctly. Words with the change of voice in the end of the word were pronounced...
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German Language in East Bohemia in the First Half of the 17th Century on the Basis of the Diachronic Analysis of the Town Law Book of Rokytnice in the Eagle Mountains (1572-1666)
Jakubcová, Lucie ; Vodrážková, Lenka (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the diachronic analysis of the Town Law Book of Rokytnice situated in the Eagle Mountains. The work is divided into two parts. The first part is focused on the general introduction to the history of the city, the history of the municipal administration and urban books and the problem of the office language. The second part describes the analysed source, followed by its editorial and lexical analysis. Editorial analysis is focused on the records of purchase and payment in order to determine whether the types of text were written in a standard format. Lexical analysis is aimed at the legal terms. It was found that the unified pattern of the purchase record existed only within an individual scribe, not for the entire Town Law Book. Pattern of payment records varies even within the same scribe. From the editorial point of view it was found out that the legal terms in the law book were mainly described within the municipal administration and business terminology. On the other hand, Latin expressions were used only very rarely. KEYWORDS German Language, Historical Linguistics, Bohemia, 17th Century
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