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Educational Contribution of RPG Video Games: Modern Media in Modern Education
Kratochvíl, Martin ; Farrell, Mark Robert (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
TITLE OF WORK: The Educational Contribution of RPG Video Games: Modern Media in Modern Education AUTHOR: Martin Kratochvíl KEY WORDS: video games, RPG genre, modern education, critical thinking, language learning, student's motivation DEPARTMENT: Department of English Language and Literature Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education SUPERVISOR: Mark Robert Farrell ABSTRACT: The subject of this topic is to research the potential contribution of RPG video games in the field of modern education and teaching. This thesis is intended for all (prospective) teachers, as well as parents, who might not have much knowledge in this particular field and who wish to understand their importance and possible benefit for contemporary children and students.
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Criteria Influencing the Choice of English Pronunciation Model
Benková, Kateřina ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (advisor) ; Farrell, Mark Robert (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the approaches and criteria influencing the choice of an English pronunciation model with a special focus on the specific preferences of Czech students. The aim of the theoretical part is to compare the most frequently used pronunciation models, Received Pronunciation and General American, in respect of the criteria and Czech educational environment. The practical part analyses Czech students' preferences regarding their contact with pronunciation models in their free time and at school. A questionnaire, which included a listening task, was distributed to students at four upper-secondary schools. The answers to the questions indicate that more students tend to favour the British accent whereas the results of the listening task show that the majority of the students prefer the American accent.
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Garden in Children's Literature - its presentation, role and symbolism in The Secret Garden and Tom's Midnight Garden
Jílková, Klára ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Farrell, Mark Robert (referee)
In my diploma thesis, I deal with the topic of the garden as it is presented in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Ann Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden. In the beginning, I discuss the reasons for the attractivity of this topic among children's authors in general, and introduce Burnett and Pearce. In the following chapters I focus mainly on the role of the gardens in the characters' lives, showing the positive effect they have on the characters, helping them to gradually change for the better. I concern myself with several themes, including the way and the circumstances in which the two gardens are discovered, the setting of the stories, and the magical aspects of both gardens. I also deal with the differences in the perception of time and with the interconnectivity of time levels in the stories. At the end of this thesis there is a chapter devoted to the way both authors present their gardens and on the means they use for their descriptions.
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English Orthography in Relation to Common Misspelling Tendecies
Matoušek, Lukáš ; Farrell, Mark Robert (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to outline three major fields that are closely connected to language, writing and speech: 'writing systems', 'English orthography' and 'English spelling'. These parts are fully theoretical and serve as an introduction and source of basic information for the supplementary research on 'common misspelling tendencies' in the English language. The primary part of this research is composed of a comparison of individual commonly misspelled words and their further analysis in relation to the English orthography. Each major part uses linguistic terms and phrases which are briefly explained in the 'keywords' section at the end of the thesis.
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