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Developing Reading Skills among Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Válková, Eliška ; Zádrapa, Lukáš (advisor) ; Andrš, Dušan (referee)
5 ABSTRACT The present paper deals with the development of reading skills of adult learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Czech language schools and its support provided by three different Chinese language course books. Even though there are various Chinese language course books available on the market, the attention these pay to reading comprehension and its development, is still rather limited. The present master thesis proposes classroom techniques which might be used to address this problem during CFL lessons. The first chapter presents findings and recommendations based on research into the development of foreign language reading skills in general, which are, in the second chapter, subsequently followed by a summary of research findings focusing specifically on teaching reading in CFL. The demands on course books raised by researchers in both fields are then applied to reading texts and accompanying exercises included in three pre-intermediate level CFL course books, New Practical Chinese Reader (Liu et al., 2002), Boya Chinese (Lǐ et al., 2005) and Discover China (Qi et al., 2010). The outcome of the the thesis consists of 21 designed lesson plans which propose solutions to some of the issues raised in the theoretical part of the thesis. The lesson plans indicate how course book texts...
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Women in ci lyrics - from Huajian ji to Li Qingzhao
Válková, Eliška ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Andrš, Dušan (referee)
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the presence of a female voice in ci lyrics of Huajian ji and in lyrics by Li Qingzhao. Analyzing the motifs connected to women in selected lyrics of both the anthology and the poet, the paper is attempting to evaluate how the songs gain authentic/ inauthentic meaning, and why the traditional critics say that Li Qingzhao writes "as if she were not a woman." The paper starts with two introductory chapters, in which background information about ci lyrics, Huajian ji, Li Qingzhao and genre development between the two is given. The paper presents nineteen lyrics of Huajian ji and eleven lyrics by Li Qingzhao, which are divided into seven thematic ranges according to depiction of women. The presentation of lyrics includes working translation into Czech language and discussion of similarities and dissimilarities in the depiction of woman among the lyrics and the authors as such. The conclusion of this paper is that the authenticity of poems by Li Qingzhao is brought across by different approach to reading her lyrics and those present in Huajian ji, as well as by the possibility to connect her lyrics to the facts known about her real life.
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