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Comics as a method for improvement of redaing skills in the teaching of german as foreign language
Neradová, Zuzana ; Kafka, Clemens (advisor) ; Botlík Nuc, Tomáš (referee)
An increase in reading competence proceeds in five stages, with the fifth stage being literary competence, in which readers can absorb and evaluate the entire emotional world of the story and all the implicit information it contains. Increasing reading competence has a positive impact on both overall language ability and intercultural competence. One possible method to increase reading literacy is through comics - pictorial or other characters arranged in spatial sequences to convey information and/or create an aesthetic effect on the viewer - which have several advantages such as short texts, context given by pictures or authentic language. Comics offer a direct method of delivery of the emotions contained in the text. To test the effectiveness of comic books in increasing literacy, an experiment was conducted with two adaptations of E.M. Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" - in a linguistically simplified version and in a literature comic form. The study showed that at A2 level, simple language books are more suitable for increasing reading literacy, as the measured increase in reading literacy was 20% higher for the students who worked with the linguistically simplified version than for those who worked with the literature comic. KEYWORDS Comics, Graphic Novel, Reading Literacy, All...
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War and love from the perspective prosaic novels of Erich Maria Remarque
Krajíčková, Kamila ; Kupcová, Helena (advisor) ; Sládek, Miloš (referee)
The bachelor thesis aims at introducing some information about the life of writer Erich Maria Remarque. To sum up his biography - from birth to death - and to mention his inspiration and life experience to write such important works. Then the bachelor's thesis will be devoted to two particular prose works, mostly book All quiet on the western front and the Three Friends. Each work will mention the basic information, the circumstances that led to the creation, the theme of the novels, the filmography, the characteristics of the characters that appear in the works, and then a detailed description of the happening. In the last chapters of the bachelor thesis we will first point to the common characters or, on the other hand, to the differences between the two above-mentioned authors' works, then the works of the others. There will be a brief analysis of other Remarque prose and a reference to the common elements that accompany the work.
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