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Acoustic analysis of the vowel /æ/ in the Czech pronunciation of English
Šturm, Pavel ; Skarnitzl, Radek (advisor) ; Marková, Petra (referee)
The subject of the thesis is acoustic analysis of the open front vowel /æ/ in the read speech of Czech students of English. The thesis deals with the differences between Czech students and native speakers of British English, as well as the differences among individual Czech speakers. The focus on this particular area in the vocalic space derives from the widespread difficulty encountered at the acquisition of the open front vowel by Czech students. Foreign accent in general is nowadays of great interest, in both general and applied research. The theoretical part of the thesis is therefore concerned not only with issues of acoustic description of vowels (formants and vocal tract resonances) and vowel systems of the languages in question (including regional differences), but also with second language acquisition. Important concepts discussed here are contrast and linguistic categories, interference of native language, and the relationship between production and perception. Since a systematic description of Czech English is yet missing, the thesis aims to contribute a more thorough investigation in this area, which could also have practical application in ESL environment.
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Learning Exercises in English Textbooks
Dřímal, Daniel ; Kasíková, Hana (advisor) ; Valenta, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals with the issues connected to learning exercises in educational English students' textbooks. The main focus is based on the occurrence of the educational exercises analysis in these textbooks. In general, learning exercises develop two main branches - the language itself (specifically grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) and language skills (speaking, listening comprehension, reading comprehension and writing). The attention is paid to what types of learning exercises usually appear and what exactly they develop in students' cognition and their language skills. The educational enrichment coming from these activities is very important for the students' cognitive development. At first, the theoretical part of each sub-branch is discussed. Afterwards, the emphasis is placed on the learning exercises themselves as these are essential components of the students' textbooks. The theoretical part is relatively extensive. It takes the fundamental proportion of the thesis and contains detailed descriptions. The explorative section is based on analysis of several English textbooks intended for students of the English language. It focuses on the proportion of language itself and the proportion of language skills. The thesis outcomes may contribute to the English learning exercises issues. In...
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Posibilities of Support for Teaching a Foreign Language to Pupils with Special Educational Needs at Younger School Age
Kramářová, Dana ; Valešová Malecová, Barbara (referee) ; Felcmanová, Lenka (referee)
Doctoral thesis titled Posibilities of support for teaching a foreign language to pupils with special educational needs at younger school age responds to the need to change the traditional approach in teaching a foreign language to pupils with specific difficulties. The aim is to create and map out the possibility of the use of the material-support file didactic aids, created to support the adoption of the selected curriculum in the English language for pupils with specific difficulties and verify his contribution in the field of the achieved knowledge, motivation and their active involvement in education. Partial goal is evaluation of the individual tools, which are processed using the multisenzorial approach and are designed to support the adoption of selected grammatical structures of foreign language (English). Theoretical bases of the current knowledge about specific learning difficulties young learners. Research is based on analysis of identified problem areas and analyzing pupils' acquired knowledge of the English language among pupils research sample, on the basis of which the file support has been specifically presented to pupils of the experimental group. Analysis of the results of the output test of acquired knowledge pupils of the experimental group was focused on mapping the...
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Teaching of Foreign Languages on Mobile Devices
Janča, David ; Samek, Jan (referee) ; Rozman, Jaroslav (advisor)
This thesis deals with the development of foreign language teaching applications for mobile devices. The applications teach phrases and words using effective adaptive algorithms. Educational algorithms adapt to the user by using information from the course of learning in order to maximize teaching effectiveness. The thesis presents educational algorithms and programming in XCode for iOS. The creation of an educational application is composed of several disciplines and so the thesis deals with topics such as the theory of teaching, choice of target mobile platforms, an overview of popular educational applications and user testing.
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The picture of good classroom practice in teaching English in pre-school education
ŠOLLEROVÁ, Markéta
This Bachelor thesis deals with teaching English as a second language in pre-school education. The theme of the thesis is to compose a picture of good classroom practice when teaching English as a second language in a pre-school setting. The picture of good classroom practice in teaching English as a second language in pre-school education established by this thesis is developed based on professional publications, observations of lessons in pre-school settings, and interviews with parents and teachers who have personal experience with foreign language acquisition at an early age. In addition to composing a picture of good classroom practice with regard to teaching English in pre-school education, the goal of this Bachelor thesis is to both find specific examples of good classroom practice and to point out the risk of negative consequences on a child's speech development if foreign language lessons are conducted inappropriately. The picture of good classroom practice in teaching English in pre-school education is then compared with the real practice in a specific bilingual kindergaten. It was ascertained that during the teaching of a foreign language at an early age that the teacher should be a professional of early childhood education with good quality language skills as it is very important to provide a correct language model for the children. The themes, content, forms, and methods should fit to the specifics of pre-school age. During foreign language teaching it is also necessary to use visual aids and to change the activities often to acquaint the children with a foreign language naturally such as by using games throughout the whole day and to combine the learning with movement (multi-modal learning). It is important to use an individual approach, to cooperate with parents, and to ensure the continuity and progression of teaching between educational stages. It is very important to continue to support the child's native language during foreign language acquisition. English language acquisition is only suitable for children whose speech is adequately developed in their native language and who don't have any serious logopaedic impediment. If impediments exist or speech is not adequately developed, it is recommended to wait to begin second language instruction until the deficits are eliminated.
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Importance of foreign languages for accepting to work position
Křenek, Lukáš ; Konečná,, Zdeňka (referee) ; Pokorný, Jiří (advisor)
This work shows us a fact, how knowledge of foreign languages is important for entrance to enterprise, witch we’re trying to reach with studying high school. Bachelor’s thesis describes memory, learning, forgetting and also methods, witch confirm prime thesis. One of these methods is submission of questionnaires to enterprises to find out requirements of employers and another are language tests. Tests will be written by students of first and third grades and tell language level. The last object of bachelor’s thesis is finding possibilities of keeping foreign language literacy.
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E-Learning System Based on Modern JAVA Technologies
Sechovec, Petr ; Janoušek, Vladimír (referee) ; Rogalewicz, Adam (advisor)
Main goal of this thesis is to analyze the current community and language learning systems and based on this analysis, to create a complex learning system. The system is implemented by modern J2EE technologies such as wickets and OR mapping. The final J2EE application is portable and easy to install on free Apache Tomcat application server or paid SUN application server. System was deployed on public FIT VUT server and tested by a sample of 60 students. Results and review of testing are at the end of this thesis.
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Support of Learning the Lithuanian
Kunetka, Martin ; Rozman, Jaroslav (referee) ; Grulich, Lukáš (advisor)
This thesis analyzes the requirements imposed on applications for teaching foreign languages and proposes a structure and functions of a program fulfilling these requirements in a specific case of Lithuanian language. The proposal is afterwards implemented and evaluated in the respect of meeting the objectives.
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