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Use of Commercials in Teaching German as a Foreign Language
Kopůncová, Ráchel ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the use of commercials in teaching of German as a foreign language. Its aim is to describe the didactic potential of working with commercials and to find out whether teachers employ them in their practice and how they perceive them. The theoretical part of the thesis considers the key concepts related to this issue, the use of commercials in education in terms of criteria for their appropriate selection and advantages and disadvantages of their employment in teaching. The dominating subject of the practical part is a research survey among teachers who teach German as a second foreign language at the second level of primary education. The research was carried out by means of a questionnaire survey and an expert assessment. Its aim was to document the current situation of the employment of commercials in teaching and, based on an expert assessment of the didactic processing of two commercials, to clarify how teachers approach this issue. The results show that 70 % of teachers use commercials in their lessons, although not very intensively. Surprisingly, commercials are used more often by older teachers with many years of experience. The presented didactic processing would be used by most teachers in their professional practice. Keywords: Audiovisual Media, Advertising,...
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Teaching geometric series through CLIL method with using of German language
Korcová, Aneta ; Moravcová, Vlasta (advisor) ; Hromadová, Jana (referee)
The core of the thesis is the realization of three lessons of mathematics conducted in accordance with the CLIL method, which integrates the teaching a non-linguistic subject with foreign language teaching. The topic of the lessons was non-finite geometric series and the chosen foreign language was German. The first part of the thesis introduces key definitions and theorems concerning sequences and geometric series. Comparisons are drawn between approaches of the Czech Republic and two German-speaking countries, Austria and Germany, in relationship to the teaching non-finite geometric series. Furthermore, available teaching materials of the selected countries are compared and applied visualized problems which appear in them are analysed. In the second part, the CLIL teaching method is presented together with the methodology according to which the lessons were prepared, realized and subsequently assessed. To conclude, the thesis presents a detailed analysis of the preparation and progress of the lessons, including the reflection. The appendix comprises of the utilized teaching materials as well as a range of the solved problems.
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Factors influencing relations between the German language and high school students
Nováková, Tereza ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
The thesis deals with factors which could influence a relation between high school students and German language. It surveys factors influencing the choice to study German as foreign language and also factors affecting their relationship with the subject. One of the topics is a classification of German in the language system and describing forms of its occurrence. Between the particular factors impacting a decision which language should be studied is for example the possibility to utilize this language in a future career or living in the German speaking countries included. It also delves into the influence of the common history between Czechs and Germans. The student can be affected by a teacher, not only in the positive, but also in the negative way during their school years. The thesis also studies how the difficulty of the German language impacts its learning process and compares the effects to English. These two languages are also compared at the primary school and high school levels, while the focus is primarily on the length of the schooling and the achieved language level. The goal of this paper is to map the measure of effect on a relation between German language and high school students caused by the aforementioned factors. These students are going to finish a high school situated in the...
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Using social networks for teaching German as a foreigne language
Čermáková, Lucie ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
The diploma thesis "Using social networks for teaching German as a foreign language" deals with the development of society in the theoretical part and how this development was influenced by technologies. There are also described the individual roles of the Internet and social networks in society and in education. The practical part deals with the use of modern technologies and social networks in education. There are individual examples and advices on how to integrate modern technologies and social networks into education throughout the year and also during one lesson. In conclusion, the work is supplemented with the results of a questionnaire survey, which was conducted in order to obtain information and on opinion of students about what they think of the involvement of social networks and modern technologies in teaching.
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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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Usage of Tablets in German Language Teaching
Habartová, Eliška ; Nečasová, Pavla (advisor) ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
The master thesis deals with the topic of including and using tablets in the process of the German language teaching. In its first three chapters, it lays down the basic facts and observation relevant to the usage of a tablet as a teaching aid. Furthermore, two methods of research were carried out in its practical part, namely questionnaire research and action research. This thesis is aimed at presenting a cohesive description of the possibilities of didactic and methodical usage of tablets in the process of foreign language teaching, particularly then in the German language teaching. The result of the questionnaire research showed, that tablets do not have its established position even in the schools that have already got them. It also revealed, that the frequency of usage tablets in foreign language teaching was quite low, but the pupils perceived it as sufficient.
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Passive in Legal language in German and Czech. Contrastive analysis
Pekárková, Ludmila ; Zeman, Dalibor (advisor) ; Martschini, Elisabeth (referee)
The presented diploma thesis is concerned with German-Czech comparison of the passive voice in legal language. In the theoretical part, the issue of German and Czech passive voice is explained through technical secondary literature. One can find there their basic forms differentiation, the way of their formation, their use in sentences and other basic characteristics. Furthermore, this part introduces the issue of technical language as the current area of today's linguistics. The theoretical findings are employed in the practical part, namely on the Maastricht contract. Firstly, the passive of the German variant of the document is analyzed followed by the analysis of the Czech version. Both of these parts are the starting point of the contrasting exploration of the two language varieties of the mentioned legal document. Czech alternatives to their German passive voice constructions were found, following these three criteria: substitution of German passive voice by Czech active voice, semantic dissonance between the two variants, and the absence of certain passive constructions in the Czech contract. At the end of the thesis, there is an evaluation of the following four hypotheses which were stated at the beginning. The first three hypotheses, which are concerned with matters such as the superiority...
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Teaching and Testing Writing. On the Common State School Leaving Exam in German Language
Kolářová, Martina ; Vachková, Marie (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee) ; Ondráková, Jana (referee)
Title: Teaching and Testing Writing. On the Common State School Leaving Exam in German Language. Author: Martina Kolářová Department: Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Superviser: doc. PhDr. Marie Vachková, Ph.D. Abstract: This thesis deals with the topic of writing ability in lessons of German as a foreign language in a context of a State-school leaving exam in German language. New model of this exam is managed centrally and its global character influences the school study in all grammar schools. The thesis concentrates on the way in which this exam influences the study and which consequences it has for the writing ability of students. The research gains the data mainly from the point of view of teachers, but it considers the student's point of view too and analyses results of their written exams. The concern in this topic is based on the current situation of modification of the state-school leaving exam in foreign languages and the criticism of its benefits for students and their study. The foreign language testing has a long tradition and counts to detailed researched fields of didactics which allows a global view on the issues in context of other foreign language exams and on teaching fields connected with testing which creates a theoretical frame of this thesis....
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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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