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Foreign language as a communication barrier in intensive care
Zachová, Eva ; Mellanová, Alena (advisor) ; Svobodová, Dita (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes if there is communication barrier with foreign patients at the selected intensive care units. We dealt with question whether hospital employees perceive communication with foreigners as a problem or not and how can they solve the problem. The first (theoretical) part is devoted to the role of communication in nursing process and to the definition of term communication barrier. In next chapters we have analyzed the profile of multicultural nursing. Then we focus on the issues of cross-cultural communication and communication barriers in contact with foreigners and the most common causes and techniques used to deal with such situations. We pay great attention to prevention and potential solutions to barriers between cultures and ethnic groups. The motivation for the thesis was supposed effecto of communication gaps on health and higher psychological burden on staff, especially when one of the basic activities of nurses is to educate patients. Research interprets the information obtained from a self-designed questionnaire survey. Questionnaires were distributed to intensive care and resuscitation units in four hospitals in Prague. Statistical evaluation of the questionnaires either confirms or refuses the hypothesis that I set at the beginning of the research. According to...
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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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To general principles of acquiring foreign language by child
BALOUNOVÁ, Romana
The submitted M.A. thesis builds on the B.A. thesis entitled On general questions of psycholinguistics and develops factual points of departure related to the topic of adoption of a foreign language by a child. A part of the theoretical section is the definition of basic concepts in the field of psycholinguistics, in particular developmental psycholinguistics, and the design of the notion of adoption of a foreign language by a child. The primary goal of the study is to provide a comparative listing of the individual theories of adoption of a foreign language by a child, not only at the level of the mother tongue, but at the level of a second language as well. The basic theoretical concepts of adoption of a foreign language are based on linguistic, psychological and especially psycholinguistic scientific research. The other goals of the thesis include the definition of extensive variable determinants which participate in the process of adoption of a foreign language by a child and also influence the resultant level of adoption of a non-native language. In the concluding part of the theoretical compilation, space is provided for the psycholinguistic aspects of adoption, such as enunciative, speech and written displays of a foreign language. The empirical part is built up in a way so that it highlights the applicability of the process of adoption of a foreign language by a child in a natural environment, i.e. in a bilingual family environment where the resultant process is the most effective and verifiable. For this reason, it is not possible to talk about learning a foreign language but rather about the adoption of a second language.
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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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Comparison of foreign language skills between nursing staff in medical workplaces in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria.
BOŽOŇ, Jiří
Communication is one of the cornerstones of nursing, and without good quality communication, it can be very difficult to provide good quality nursing care. In doing so, any of the communication barriers can significantly affect the outcome of the entire communication. Nowadays, the number of treated and hospitalized foreigners in the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries has been growing, and each of us can get into a situation where we might be forced to seek help in medical facilities. One of the communication barriers may be a language barrier. The aim of the research was to map and compare the knowledge of foreign languages among the nursing staff in selected health facilities in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. Another objective was to determine the readiness of selected health facilities in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria to communicate with foreigners. To obtain the necessary data, two types of research were used. Quantitative research was conducted in the form of a non-standardized anonymous questionnaire. Questionnaires were statistically processed and graphically evaluated. Qualitative research was carried out by a short non-standardized interview where the main topics of conversation were the opportunities of nursing staffs in medical facilities to communicate with foreign patients, and the opportunities for further language training while performing their profession. The research group consisted of nurses from selected health facilities in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. The research was conducted in two health facilities in each of these countries; a total of six health care facilities. From October to November 2015, a total of 300 questionnaires were distributed. Each of the six health care facilities got 50 questionnaires, ie. a hundred questionnaires to each of the aforementioned countries. 80 questionnaires from the Czech Republic (80%) were returned, 55 questionnaires from Germany (55%) and 78 questionnaires from Austria (78%). After the removal of incomplete or incorrectly filled items, the final number of used questionnaires were 72 from the Czech Republic (100%), 50 from Germany (100%) and 67 from Austria (100%). The research sample group consisted of head nurses or managers and heads of nursing departments (Pflegeleiter/in, Pflegedirektor/in) in the hospitals where the research was conducted. The results of the research survey showed that there were differences in language proficiency among the members of nursing staffs, and that members of the nursing staffs in selected health facilities in Germany and Austria were prepared especially for communication with foreign patients who speak English. Czech staffs were prepared to communicate with patients who speak German, but English or Russian to a lesser degree. Another part of the survey dealt with the readiness of selected medical devices to communicate with foreigners. The results showed that the selected health care facilities where the research was carried out were with one exception ready to ensure communication with foreigners in providing good quality treatment. The results of the research point to the fact that the language skills of nursing staffs are indeed very important when communicating with foreign patients, but they usually speak onlycommonly used languages. When a foreign patient speaks the language spoken by only a few staff members or even none of them, it is essential that the hospital provides communication with foreigners to be able to provide good quality treatment.
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