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The teaching of foreign languages and the process of preparation of teachers of foreign languages in the period 1990-2012
Čermáková, Helena ; Váňová, Růžena (advisor) ; Kasíková, Hana (referee)
This work focuses on changes in teaching foreign languages and on new requirements for education and training of foreign language teachers after 1989, including a brief survey of the history of foreign language teaching and the development of teacher training. It observes changes in the area of learning objectives, changes in the teacher - pupil relationship, changes in work methods. It deals with a new approach to the selection and use of teaching materials and the inclusion of new technologies in teaching. It discusses the implementation of both the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the European Language Portfolio. The work presents in the form of interviews also personal experience with teaching foreign languages and possible ways to achieve the required qualification.
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French ordinals in diachronic perspective
Chovanová, Lucie ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
Numerals in French language represent very rich and to a large extent complicated grammatical system. This thesis focuses on the ordinal numerals which represent a very interesting subject of research, especially in terms of their historical development. As a preface to this problematics, we will, at first, generally characterize numerals in contemporary French normative grammar, explain their classification and then further focus on the cardinals and ordinals that are closely related from a diachronic point of view. This BA thesis aims to explain the development and functioning of ordinal numbers in French from their Latin origins to the present and also their specifics. Using the Frantext, we will illustrate the competition between different forms of ordinal numbers as well as their competition with the cardinals. Numeral "the second" with its two forms: second and deuxième, represents a specific case in this category. Its usage requires certain rules, which are however not always respected. By the means of a questionnaire designed for native speakers, we will try to analyze this phenomenon and consider whether the ordinals represent a category in decline.
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Lexical negation in French adjectives - semantic and morphological constraints
Orel, Jan ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
This thesis focuses on the issues of lexical negation in French adjectives as well as on other parts of speech - nouns and adverbs. Its objective is the description of functioning of the lexical negation and the examination of restriction, which it is accompanied by. Based on these findings, the practical part (i.e. personal research) will try to define the tendencies of the use of lexical negation in the near future. Last but not least, this thesis also describes the use of general negation or out of standard French language - in argot or in spoken language.
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The Interpreter's and Listener's Perception of Speed in the Process of Simultaneous Interpretation: an Analysis of Theory and Practice Pertaining to French-Czech and Czech-French Material
Tite, Barbora ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Sládková, Miroslava (referee)
This thesis addresses the issue of the subjective perception of the speaker's speed during simultaneous interpretation. The theoretical grounding of the thesis is based on Karla Déjean Le Féal's doctoral thesis (1978), which first introduced the notion of subjective speed, whereby two speeches of equal objective speed (as measured in syllables/min.) are perceived as having different speeds. The conclusions of Déjean Le Féal's thesis demonstrate that interpreters usually experience a faster subjective speed when interpreting speeches which were prewritten and then read aloud by the speaker. Impromptu speeches are usually perceived as being slower than read speeches. Aside from the above-mentioned theory of subjective speed, the theoretical section of this thesis analyzes various approaches to measuring speech speed, the relation between objective speed and simultaneous interpreting, the determinants of speech speed and prosodic features influencing the subjective perception of speed. The empirical section of this thesis consists of an experiment which aims to verify Déjean Le Féal's conclusions using French-Czech material. The methodology of the experiment partially replicates the method used by Aneta Mandysová in her master's thesis (2011), which is focused on German-Czech material. The method used...
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World language French a its current importance in the European Union
Růžičková, Kateřina ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (advisor) ; Müllerová, Eva (referee)
The thesis represents the position of French language on international scene, its role in the formation of patriotism of French nation and its development within the European Union. This thesis is concerned with the reasons which raised French language to an international and diplomatic language and which led to the weakening of its influence in the world. The thesis analyzes the language policy of France and institutions supporting the francophonie which care for protection and maintenance of French in the European and worldwide bases. Not least, there is outlined the importance of French language in the process of European integration and its current mission in the institutions of European Union.
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Possibilities and limits of preschool education of french language based on the example of the international preschool Blue Sky
VESELÁ, Šárka
This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of preschool education of french language, its possibilities and limits. The question is considered from a psychological perspective and the starting point is the mental evolution of child. The main aim is to discover if it?s possible to teach french language in the early years, from three to six years old, and, if so, how and with which results. Investigations were conducted in two preschools for which the author prepared and with a native speaker taught french lessons. Final results of this thesis follow from this personal experience of the author.
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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie - History, Structure and Aims
GIGERICHOVÁ, Eva
This bachelor thesis "The International Organization of the Francophony - its history, structure and aims" is devided into the five basic chapters. The individual chapters concern the origins of this Organization, its organizational and legal structure and the delimitation of concrete objectives. One separate chapter is dedicated to the location and relation between the Czech republic and this Organization and the last chapter compares activities of Intenational Organization of Francophony and British Commonwealth. The thesis contains also the summary in French language and a bilingual glossary.
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Literary text in courses of french as a foreign language
ZEZULOVÁ, Veronika
Literary text in courses of french as a foreign language This graduation theses (thesis) researches the use of artistic text in the textbooks for French as a foreign language. It monitors both its quantitative and qualitative developments linked with increasing language level of students and incorporated exercises. It is concentrated on the corpus of textbooks available on the Czech market of which it analyzes the five French and two Czech textbooks that represent the didactic production from the 90th of the 20th century to the present. The essential part of this work is to create a typology of accompanying activities of artistic texts. The goal is to compare the results obtained by analyzing of the selected material. It is evaluated in term of books publishing, their provenance, range and character of the artistic text.
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Oral Interaction in Classes of French - 2L
ŠTROUGALOVÁ, Martina
This thesis observes the phenomenon of oral interaction and its share in the classes of french language at secondary school. Primarily, it deals with the history of the oral interaction and its development in methodologies of foreign languages. Then it focuses on description of the current situation, which is based on observation of concrete classes. The aim of this thesis is to find out how to integrate the oral interaction effectively into french classes and what type of methodological approach is favorable to oral interaction. Finally, the crucial propositions are formulated, which can positively influence the process of teaching foreign languages, following the communication objective.
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Actual situation of learning French. A comparative study on classic and alternative methods
KADLECOVÁ, Alena
This thesis deals with the description of the contemporary situation in the French language teaching in the Czech Republic with a view to the comparison of traditional and alternative teaching methods. The first part of the thesis consists of the description of the historical development of the teaching methods and their characteristics. Then I point out the problems related to the classification of the teaching methods and their division into two main groups of traditional and alternative methods. The comparison of the two groups of methods is included in the third chapter of the thesis. In the last part a questionnaire was used to find out the opinions of teachers and students and I also show selected data concerning the contemporary situation in foreign languages teaching in the school year 2005/ 2006.
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