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Effective using of potential of bilingual environment
HOVORKOVÁ, Eva
The dissertation thesis "How to use the potential of bilingual environment efficiently" endeavors to highlight bad as well as good practices in bilingual upbringing. Bilingualism represents at present a very topical issue. In connection with increasing globalization, the issue of learning of foreign languages is more and more emphasised. People living in mixed marriages have often no idea how to bring their children up. In many cases they take steps that lead to irreversible consequences. The theoretical part of the thesis gives a survey of bilingualism, the division and kinds of bilingualism and ways of its acquisiton. The theory is practically illustrated in the empirical part through various examples. 42 case studies have been carried out, which include characteristic and uncharacteristic respondents. The findings of the research are compared with the facts mentioned in the reference works. The aim of the dissertation thesis is to find out which educational methods should parents follow in bilingual education and which methods they should better avoid.
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Adaptation of Preschool Children in a Foreign Language Environment
MITREVSKÁ, Martina
The subject of my bachaelor thesis is an adaptation and acquisition of other languages by bilingual children in the kindergarden environment. The aim of my work is to detect the most common problems, which can occur during a bilingual child´s adaptation and language development, from the parents and kindergarden teachers point of view. The bachaelor thesis is comprised of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part of my work describes general terms and recent opinions, presented in published works, which investigates problems such as speech development, language, bilingualism, bilingual education, bilingual individual and children´s adaptation to kindergarden environment. The practical part presents results of my research, which has been implemented on five different specimens. I attempt to describe, what feelings and experiences children have during adaptation, how does bilingual child´s language development proceed, what are the most common problems which accompanies child´s adaptation and what steps should the teacher take to enable the most natural, fast and smooth adaptation and language acquisition. The study will be conducted through observation and interviews. I will explore child´s behavior, temperament, participation and language development. During this study I will work closely with children´s parents, who will help me record important changes. I will observe in my study five bilingual children 3 to 6 years old living in families, whose language is different from community language. I will attempt through the help of teachers and parents to summarize, how did child adjut to the new environment, how did she/he manage the language and what were the most common bilingual children´s problems and parent´s fears.
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THE RELATION OF CHILDREN TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Tereza
The thesis "The relation of children to foreign language education" deals with the relation of pupils learning foreign languages in selected South Bohemian primary schools. The theoretical part deals with the conception of teaching foreign languages in the first Elementary schools in the Czech Republic, participants in the learning process and motivation in language education and learning foreign languages in kindergartens. The practical part is devoted to the questionnaire research, which determines the relation of pupils to learn foreign languages and their attitudes to the importance of foreign language knowledge. The questionnaires were designed for students from 5th classes in ten elementary schools in South Bohemia.
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Teaching English in Preschool Children
SPIŠÁKOVÁ, Mária
This thesis deals with the teaching English in preschool children. The first part of the thesis analyses developmental assumptions of preschool children for learning a foreign language. Moreover, it compares two different views of scientists, Piaget and Vygotskij, on the relationship between development and learning. The second part of the thesis characterizes the best-known methods in language teaching in preschool children in the Czech Republic. All five language schools reported use a direct unwitting method that is successful and natural way of language learning children up to the age of seven years old. The thesis highlights the advantages of each method and presents a concrete example of the use of their combination in practice.
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Francophony in Tunisia
MÁŠA, Josef
The thesis deals with the issue of French speech in Tunisia. It focuses on the French language since its introduction in the country until the present day, on the status of this language among other languages used in this Arab country and on the relationship of the locals to the language of the former colonizers. It is a sociolinguistic study, with the theoretical part showing the situation of the geography, history, culture and politics. As for the linguistic-theoretical part, it studies the French language in various areas of the social life and finally there is an assessment of specific examples of the use of French in the practical part. Within the theoretical part, we are evaluating the involvement of the International Francophone Organization in Tunisia.
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Children with bilingual education in a kindergarten from the view of the family
JAVŮRKOVÁ, Ivana
The bachelor thesis is focused on the integration of children into the Czech kindergartens ? mainly from foreign citizen and immigrant families and also briefly the theme of Gypsy children. The theoretical part deals with the most frequent terms which we can encounter in this context and current opinions mentioned in the latest years literature which deals with the integration of foreigners into schools. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to see the approach of teachers from the chosen sample of the Czech kindergartens, teachers? treatment and their abilities to integrate the foreigners? children into the group. Above all, find out the opinion of quality and erudition of the Czech kindergartens through the interviews with parents. Through the observation is then possible to confront the reality. The results of research indicate the underestimation of serious situation, which concerns the integration of foreigners into schools from the point of view of educational institutions and legislators. The educations of kindergarten teachers is not developed enough in this way and there are emphasized another activities. The priority of this issue is the knowledge of the majority language - in the case of ignorance from the parents? site it could be the insurmountable obstacle for the child. Teacher´s treatment in the kindergarten becomes more intuitive matter because of the set system of education of foreign children. The issue is closely related to the education of parents who put the different emphasis on the education of their children. Research shows that there is a direct proportionality between the value of achieved education of parents and the ability and willingness of the child to learn to communicate the majority language.
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Bilingualism and Codeswitching
Vlha, Radovan ; Surynek, Alois (advisor) ; Pauknerová, Daniela (referee)
The thesis focuses on the issue of bilingualism and codeswitching. Bilingualism is a natural phenomenon of more than half of the world's population. The thesis discusses all the possible definitions of bilingualism and of bilingual people. It briefly deals with the history of language development within Europe and then continues to discuss the situation of language development in the European Union. Codeswitching is inseparably connected with bilingualism as it is the act of switching between one language to another. Also closely connected with bilingualism is intercultural communication for which the simple knowledge of grammatical rules is not enough. The thesis has adopted the results of different research which are predominantly focused on modern methods of measuring human brain activity. So the essential questions which are connected with language growth, receiving of information and the formation of language systems are answered. The thesis also puts emphasis on the possibility of the growth of bilingualism to which the reasons are most often influenced by the environment or the effort for the search of employment.
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Specific Features of the Orthography in the Dictionary of Clementinum (1455)
Voleková, Kateřina
The paper focuses on the orthographical form of the Latin-Czech Dictionary of Clementinum from the middle of the 15th century. The orthographical form is determined by subjective and objective factors: the scribe’s orthographical habits and the specific characteristics of the dictionary text, including the bilingualism of the text and the brief record, consisting of subject words in the dictionary.
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English Language Acquisition of Preschool Children in a Kindergarten Bilingual Classroom
ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Michaela
The bachelor thesis deals with the possibilities of a foreign language education (in this case ? the English education) in a bilingual classroom in the Czech kindergarten. The theoretical part describes the issue of bilingualism, the foreign language acquisition, and the conditions that are required for a successful education of preschool children in a foreign language. These are linked with the aims according to the Framework Education Programme for Preschool Education. The practical part is concerned with the research of the English language acquisition process and its results in the Dolphins? bilingual classroom in Mateřídouška kindergarten in Brno. The thesis also provides materials used in the programme and videos that show the methods and attitudes of the teachers in the given bilingual classroom.
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