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Impact of Intersonorant Voicing on the Perception of Foreing Accent in the Speech of Advanced Czech Learners of English
Dvořáková, Martina ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis aims at exploring the impact of intersonorant voicing (/ˈbeɪzɪk/ instead of /beɪsɪk/) that frequently occurs in the speech of Czech learners of English on the degree of foreign accentedness. To evaluate this phenomenon, the method of a perception test was used. The sample phrases with and without the aforementioned mistake were evaluated by native speakers of the English language. The result of their observation, the level of foreign accentedness, was marked on a seven point scale and analysed by the author with the aim of either confirming or rejecting two original hypotheses concerning the relationship between the intersonorant voicing and foreign accentedness when featured in various positions.
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Role of interactive computer word games in English vocabulary acquisition
Banáková, Lucia ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the possibilities that computer assisted language learning (CALL) games might provide to learners of English as a second or foreign language in vocabulary learning. Since the prominent focus is on the practical part, only a limited selection of relevant theories and concepts about vocabulary learning and CALL technologies in general is provided in the theoretical part. The practical part introduces an originally designed and programmed CALL vocabulary game and audits its functionality and helpfulness in vocabulary learning process of high school English as second language students through an experiment and a questionnaire survey. The results are analyzed in the last chapter and improvements and further extensions to the game are proposed.
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Experiential Education: Teaching English Language to Adults
Kyršová, Eliška ; Hofmannová, Marie (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on experiential education as a possible and efficient methodology for teaching ESL to adult learners. The theoretical part scrutinizes the key principles of the method and investigates its background. In addition, the thesis clarifies the concept of learning styles and Kolb's Learning Cycle. The following sections deal with the adult learner as a specific type of learner with his characteristic needs and factors influencing his SLA. Furthermore, the benefits of experiential education for the adult learner are considered. The practical part introduces several concrete activities using elements of experiential education. These activities were described in detail and piloted in a group of adult learners.
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Interference in Use of English Perfect Tenses by Czech Students of German
Taušková, Martina ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Jančovičová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis focuses on the influence of knowledge of the German language on use of English perfect tenses. It is based on the research, in which university students of English took part. The research does not prove that students who speak German (including students who do not study German as their major at university) achieve better results than others but it shows that among German speaking respondents, there is a direct proportion between the length of learning German and the amount of correct answers. The research shows that students who study both English and German as their major, scored significantly higher.
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Linguistic analysis of on-line advertising in English
Romanenko, Elena ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Morgan, Craig Alan (referee)
This thesis presents a linguistic analysis of on-line advertising in English. A corpus of 150 advertisements was divided into three thematically distinct categories: non-commercial advertising, advertising of alcohol and cigarettes, and unspecified advertising of various products. Then, the examination and identification of the linguistic features and rhetorical figures was carried out. The theoretical part deals with the concept of advertising and the most frequent linguistic devices employed in slogans. The practical part aims to statistically describe the most commonly used linguistic means in advertising slogans in relation to the thematic domain they come from, as well as to reveal the connection between the use of advertising language and advertising objectives. Key words: advertising slogan, figurative language, rhetorical figure
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Pronunciation of words of French origin in contemporary English
Procházková, Jana ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
Title of the bachelor thesis: The Pronunciation of Words of French Origin in Contemporary English Key words: English language, French language, pronunciation, vowel, consonant, word stress, spelling, borrowing. Abstract The bachelor thesis The Pronunciation of Words of French Origin in contemporary English analyses French borrowings in the English language from the point of view of their pronunciation. Its aim is to name the basic differences and to find if there are any regularities or tendencies. The theoretical part provides general information about the history of the English language, with special attention to lexical units that it borrowed from French. It also explores the phonetic systems of the two languages. The practical part examines, through the means of comparative analysis, the pronunciation of individual lexical units, especially the changes that it undergoes. The research showed that certain tendencies can be observed, although there are always exceptions. It was proved that the pronunciation of vowels is predictable to a lesser degree than that of consonants and that the changes or modifications of individual sounds are closely connected to spelling and to word stress.
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American and British Dialectal Synonyms in Selected Lexical Fields
Kožíšek, David ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with lexical differences between contemporary American and British English. The thesis presents an outline of historical and sociolinguistic factors which affected the development of American English. It includes a thematic mini-dictionary of 224 commonly used British and American dialectal synonyms. With regard to the words' etymological origin, the thesis attempts to characterize the structure of selected lexical fields. The practical part presents an experiment which reflects on how Czech students of the English language incorporate individual dialectal synonyms into their active vocabulary.
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Sociolinguistic Concept of Political Correctness and lts Impact on Modern Public English
Ženíšek, Filip ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis deals with the sociolinguistic concept of political correctness and scrutinizes the impact it has on modern public English language. It describes the changes proposed by the current trend which are meant to erase any offensive and controversial expressions from both public and priváte speech codes. Brief philosophical, sociological and historical backgrounds of the problém of linguistic discrimination are also provided in order to explain the movement which is aiined at changing the way the people of the European and American civilization express themselves.
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Czech Attitudes to English Lexical Borrowings
Endrštová, Zdeňka ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
The proposed thesis deals with the attitudes to English borrowings in the Czech Republic, primarily examining their variability caused by age. Its main aim is to verify the assumption that growing age correlates with the tendency of Czech language users to have negative attitudes towards borrowings from English. In the theoretical part, selected aspects of the occurrence and perception of English borrowings in Czech are presented. Besides, some of the major issues considering the area of language attitudes are dealt with. The practical part gives an account of a questionnaire survey in which 165 respondents from three generations took part. The questions focus on the perception of frequency of English borrowings in Czech, the semantic transparency of these lexemes, the language users attitudes to English loanwords, as well as their predictions and concerns considering the further development of their mother tongue. The results suggest that older generations tend to have rather negative attitudes to the borrowings. Moreover, younger peoples assessment of anglicisms is not as decisively positive as originally hypothesised in the present analytical framework. Nevertheless, noticeable differences in language attitudes among age groups were confirmed.
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