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Tools for teaching geography at primary schools for the deaf - a proposal of a multimedia tool
Drozdová, Lenka ; Macurová, Alena (referee) ; Okrouhlíková, Lenka (advisor)
The goal of my bachelor thesis is to make a design of a multimedia device on general geography for deaf and hard of hearing pupils at primary schools. I focus above all on visual (graphic) design of the multimedia device, its organization and facilities and its interactivity. I describe in details one of the three chapters, the device should contain, the second chapter "The Earth - our planet" for illustration. DVD with this chapter demostration is attached to the thesis. The introductory part of the thesis brings general characteristics of the school subject "geography" (i.e. its content and objectives). I focus on its inclusion to the new curriculum documents, which follow the Framework educational program for primary schools. In the following section, I briefly outline the issues of the deaf education, in particular, what challenges deaf and hard of hearing pupils face within learning process. Next part of my thesis is devoted to textbooks content description. First of all, I describe textbooks in general. Then, I reflect in detail, what benefits have other types of textbooks comparing to paper ones. I focus on multimedia textbooks and their use in deaf education. The last part focuses on the chapter "Earth - our planet" description. In the draft, I tried to visualize the maximum of the learning...
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Compounds in the Czech sign language
Mladová, Pavlína ; Šůchová, Lucie (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
The present bachelor's thesis analyzes compounds in the Czech sign language. Introductory chapters present a brief summary of word-formation in Czech, of compound types in Czech and the principles of formation of new signs in the Czech sign language. For the purposes of this work, the author made excerpts of Czech sign language compounds from a selected sample of print and electronic dictionaries of the Czech sign language, on the basis of which she described the nature of different types of compounds in the Czech sign language (spoken language-affected compounds vs. true compounds; subordinate and coordinate compounds; sequential, simultaneous and sequential-simultaneous compounds). Also, a part of this work presents a study on phonological processes in sequential compounds that occur during the articulation.
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Tense in Czech written texts of the Czech deaf
Richterová, Klára ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The thesis deals with the ways tense is expressed in written Czech texts of the Czech deaf. It draws on several foreign studies and, more specifically, the findings of Racková (1996) and Macurová (2003), trying to provide additions and new interpretations resulting from an analysis of both new and old data. The description and analysis of the written texts is primarily focused on possible interference from the Czech sign language with its characteristic lexical signals of tense and its use of time frames. The thesis has two major parts, the first of which is more theoretical, with its focal point on concepts of time and tense, and ways of expressing time both in spoken and sign languages. The second part, representing the core of the thesis, is devoted to an analysis of the text written by the Czech deaf. The findings based on the data have been verified by an additional probe, in which deaf respondents provided translations of several sentences from the Czech sign language into written Czech.
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Adjectives in Czech sign language?
Zahumenská, Jitka ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Okrouhlíková, Lenka (referee)
The leading topic af this thesis is to laok for an answer to tbe following question: Are there any means af expressing the properties af entities in Czech sign language and ifso, can we think ofthese means as adjectives which laok and wark in a very similar way in Czech spoken language? The author is aware af the different modality af Czech spoken and sign language which may cause a difference in the classification af lexical categories in both languages. That is the reason why tbe author gives priority to dea1ing with language typology and word/sign category cIassification issues in general. Subsequently, the author uses tbe semantic, morphological and syntactic conditions af lexica1 category classification to describe the form and function af lexical items that express the properties af entities in Czech sign language and she correlates them with tbe [orm and function of adjectives in Czech spoken language. The Czech sign language data for the research have been callected by elicitation method from spontaneous cammunication af deaf sign language users. The author deals with the expression af possession in Czech sign language as well. Finally she proves some af the facts regarding adjectives in Czech sign language by providing examples from written texts of deaf Czech individuals.
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Epistemologic limits of selected approaches to language
Beneš, Martin ; Lehečková, Eva (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
The aim of this text is to comment and critically evaluate the epistemology of selected approaches to language: namely European structuralism (Saussure, Hjelmslev, Prague School), generative grammar, the linguistics of la parole and text linguistics and cognitive approaches to language. In particular, the aim is to comment epistemological limits of these approaches with regards to the two basic facts. Firstly, with regard to the fact that what these approaches define as their object field is in fact only a partial section of the whole subject field of linguistics (looked upon through the purposes of this work as a specifically structured communication model). Secondly, this text will investigate the relations between these approaches and an important claim of the philosopher of science T. S. Kuhn. Kuhn in his widely known book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions says: "There is, I think, no theory-independent way to reconstruct phrases like ‚really there'." (Kuhn, 1970, p. 206). That means whether claims based on epistemology of particular approaches describe objective reality or only give us a description of their own theoretical constructs.
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Tense in Czech written texts of the Czech deaf
Richterová, Klára ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
The thesis deals with the ways tense is expressed in written Czech texts of the Czech deaf. It draws on several foreign studies and, more specifically, the findings of Racková (1996) and Macurová (2003), trying to provide additions and new interpretations resulting from an analysis of both new and old data. The description and analysis of the written texts is primarily focused on possible interference from the Czech sign language with its characteristic lexical signals of tense and its use of time frames. The thesis has two major parts, the first of which is more theoretical, with its focal point on concepts of time and tense, and ways of expressing time both in spoken and sign languages. The second part, representing the core of the thesis, is devoted to an analysis of the text written by the Czech deaf. The findings based on the data have been verified by an additional probe, in which deaf respondents provided translations of several sentences from the Czech sign language into written Czech.
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Simultaneity in the Czech sign language
Motejzíková, Jitka ; Hudáková, Andrea (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
V naší práci budeme zkoumat jeden ze základních povahových rysů znakových jazyků: simultánnost. Tato vlastnost je jednou ze základních vlastností, kterou se znakové jazyky liší od jazyků, které mají mluvenou formu!. Při výzkumu budeme vycházet z dostupných zahraničních i domácích studií, které se danou problematikou ve znakových jazycích zabývají. Na základě poznatků získaných v těchto studiích vytvoříme přehledný soupis prostředků, které mají potenciál vyjadřovat významy simultánně, a doložíme je analogickými příklady českého znakového jazyka. Na jeden z těchto prostředků, klasifikátory, se v naší práci zaměříme více. Vzhledem k tomu, že jsme si zvolili velmi obsáhlé a zároveň dosti obecné téma, není možné se jednotlivým prostředkům simultánnosti věnovat hlouběji - pokud máme toto téma postihnout v jeho šíři. Omezujeme se tedy jen na prostý výčet těchto prostředků, které dokládáme vždy jen jedním nebo dvěma příklady. Jsme si vědomi toho, že každý z těchto prostředků by si zasluhoval samostatný výzkum a že naše práce poskytuje jen úvodní vhled do dané problematiky. Proto doufáme, že tato práce poskytne všem případným zájemcům dostatečnou inspiraci a informační zázemí pro další výzkum českého znakového jazyka a dané problematiky.
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Baby talk - analyse of the deaf child speech
Hronová, Anna ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Nebeská, Iva (referee)
This work throws light upon the communication in the sign language which is held in a deaf family. Theoretical part of the work is focused on description of the features of language acquisition. General psycholinguistic knowledge i s given parallely with the results of research of sign language acquisition of the the deaf children from deaf families. The largest part of this work i s analyse of a five years old deaf boy speech. The author based her research on the M.A.K. Halliday language acquisition theory.
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Czech language in deaf children's education
Hudáková, Andrea ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Nebeská, Iva (referee) ; Tarcsiová, Darina (referee)
The text is mapping the role of Czech language and other communication codes in Deaf children's education, prelingually Deaf above all. Essential Deaf people's communication ways, speaking language and sign language acquisition developments and two main education conceptions: monolingual and monocultural vs. bilingual and bicultural (total communication - as a metod as a philosophy - is remembered too) are presented in the first part. The second part is focused on historical and also contemporary education theories and communication methods applied in our schools for the Deaf. They are confronted with literacy tests score and implementation process of the state guaranteed school-leaving exam in the end.
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Deaf signs
Vysuček, Petr ; Vaňková, Irena (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
This dissertation addresses a special group of signs in Czech Sign Language - we call them Specific Signs. There are total of 90 of them being introduced and analyzed in this paper. The larger part of the Specific Signs is divided into 17 categories. In each category there are signs similar in meaning and therefore often misused in the context by non-native signers. An 18th category contains signs which have the same manual components but have different oral components. Another 39 signs are analyzed individually, they are not part of any category. Each Specific Sign has a sequence number and there is a photo documentation showing what the sign looks like (the movement, the process of sign and the type of oral component). Furthermore, for each sign there is a written explanation of its manual and non-manual component, an approximation of its general meaning and the most frequent translation. The use of the sign is shown in examples from commonly signed conversations. These examples are translated into written Czech and the sign order, used in the signed sentence, is listed as well.
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