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Pupils' motivation for learning languages at grammar school
Slancová, Lucie ; High, Radka (advisor) ; Urbanová, Denisa (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with students' motivation to study during foreign languages lessons at secondary schools. The thesis consists of two parts: theoretical and practical. The key concepts - motivation itself, approach to motivation and types of motivation, are defined in the theoretical part. The author uses recent scientific literature and articles. The most used titles are work by Hrabal, Man and Pavelková and by Lokšová and Lokša. Both titles use a very intelligible language. The objective of the practical part is to find answers to the research questions: 1. How do the foreign language teachers perceive motivation? 2. How do the teachers motivate their students? The author of the thesis contacted seven teachers of an anonymous secondary school in order to find the answers. The answers were being searched for via semi-structured interviews with these seven teachers. Either qualitative or quantitative methods could be used to analyze the result of the research. This thesis uses qualitative method since the number of the respondents wasn't as important as finding individual understandings of the subject. Collated data were analyzed using open coding of which the subjects answering the research questions arose. As to the first research question, the answer is that the teachers perceive motivation of...
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The meaning of student teaching practice for entering the teaching profession
Hájková, Aneta ; Duschinská, Karolina (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
The aim of the presented work is to map the issue of pedagogical practice regarding its importance in the decision-making of future teachers about entering or not entering the profession, evaluate its benefits for students and outline possible changes in undergraduate teacher training. The presented text contains two main parts, namely the theoretical part and the practical part. The theoretical part consists of chapters dealing with the training of future teachers. The first chapter defines the key concepts in the field. The second chapter follows the general characteristics of pedagogical practice as an integral part of the study of teaching. The core of the text then consists of a passage, the content of which is specifically focused on the description of the special importance of the training of future teachers. The design of the research survey in the practical part is based on a qualitative methodology, primarily the use of the method of explanatory case study. Data collection is realized through semi-structured interviews with individual students, where a large amount of data is collected from a few respondents. A thorough examination of a small sample of respondents will help to understand similar cases. Furthermore, the theoretical part defined key terms related to the topic. Terms such as...
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Coping strategies in bikini fitness competition
Kazdová, Barbora ; Mudrák, Jiří (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
This bachelor thesis titled Coping Strategies in Bikini Fitness Competition discusses one of the contemporary phenomena in the female bodybuilding category - Bikini Fitness. This category is continuously increasing in popularity within girls and women of different age ranges and levels of experience mainly due to the growing influence of the current social trends and media. Considering the combination of the physical and modelling requirements with the requirement of preservation of femininity, Bikini Fitness can be seen as a rather specific category. The author of this qualitative-oriented thesis mainly focuses on the assessment of the competitor's motivation, experience, and the subjectively perceived challenges rendered within the category and the respective coping strategies. Moreover, the author examines the competitor's functioning during particular periods of the contest season in regards to family, employment, study and social life demands. This examination leads to the identification of different approaches and methods adopted by the competitors and their subsequent comparison which highlights their effectiveness or ineffectiveness and the potential consequences. The author of this thesis opted for qualitative form of multi-case study as a research method and for personal semi-structured...
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Does weeping in adults increase the probability of prosocial behavior among observers?: A systematic literature review
Zíková, Lucie ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
The presented systematic literature review seeks answers to the question "Does weeping in adults increase the probability of prosocial behavior among observers?". Our methodology follows the PRISMA Statement recommendations. On the basis of predefined key words 2278 records have been identified in the Scopus and PsycINFO databases. Overlapping records have been removed and abstracts and whole texts have been screened to evaluate the fulfilment of the eligibility criteria and the relevance for the predefined question and this resulted in the inclusion of 8 articles representing 10 experiments into the final analysis. This thesis brings an overview of these studies and their conclusions and methodologies. It discusses the strengths and weaknesess of the various approaches. It turned out that the fact, whether participants are presented with a decontextualized stimulus material or whether they are at least slightly acquainted with the context, plays an important role in the research. If the context is included, it appears that the influence of tears on the willingness to help is not as strong as in the case of its absence. Furthermore, many other factors have been found to be relevant that affect this relationship. We also discuss the adequacy of the the concept "prosocial behaviour" as hypotheses...
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Integration of foreign students in the Czech public higher education: difficulties and opportunities
Odintsova, Eugenia ; Machovcová, Kateřina (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
The central theme of this diploma thesis is to analyze key stress factors, which foreign background students meet during their integration in the Czech Republic. All respondents are recruited from the Eastern European countries, for instance, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Two main groups include: - students who are in the Czech Republic less than one year - students who are in the Czech Republic for more than one year The primary research method was using a semi-structured interview with eight respondents. For measuring acculturative stress level was used the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which was filled in by 36 students. There were found differences in the adjustment level and language competence among two groups of students. This research has also confirmed the relationship between the length of stay in the Czech Republic a level of acculturative stress. KEYWORDS foreign students, stress factors, integration, public higher education
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