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The Context of French Language Teaching in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Smoleňová, Simona ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis explores the context of teaching French in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its main aim is to bring forward up-to-date knowledge concerning the teaching of French, especially in primary and secondary schools. In addition, the thesis seeks to highlight the similarities and differences concerning the teaching of French in the Czech and Slovak school systems. The main part of the thesis presents the context of French language teaching in Slovakia through the analysis of the following categories: legislative documents, curriculum documents, French language teachers' associations, cooperation with France and actions promoting the French language. The same categories are also analysed for the Czech Republic and, thanks to the findings from the Slovak context, it is possible to compare the two contexts. The practical part of the thesis examines the reality of French language teaching in Slovak schools through a questionnaire survey, Teaching French in Slovak Schools. The questionnaire survey was adopted from the Czech Republic, where the same survey, but with a larger sample, was conducted in 2020. Twenty-five French language teachers from different types of schools in Slovakia took part in the questionnaire survey. Its results confirmed the finding from the theoretical part that the number of...
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Alliance française and Institut français: cooperation or competition? The Case of the Czech Republic.
Simbartlová, Anna ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Alliance Française and Institut Français: Cooperation or Competition? (The Case of the Czech Republic)" deals with the Czech model of activities provided by the French cultural institutions abroad and the potential complementarity or rivalry of theirs. The first chapter briefly introduces the general cultural diplomacy and afterwards deals with the French model of this policy. Among the specific elements of the French cultural diplomacy belongs the wide net of cultural centres which is created by two types of institutions namely Instituts français, organised by the French government, and Alliances françaises associations which are governmentally independent. The thesis is further specialised on the case of the Czech Republic where there simultaneously exist both of above mentioned types of cultural institutions. The second chapter describes mainly their functioning and activities, and the third chapter subsequently analyses their reciprocal relationship. The aim of this thesis is to research whether this relationship is complementary or conflicting. The thesis comes to the conclusion that in spite of certain collisions of interests between Institut français and Alliances françaises in the Czech model, the close cooperation which is in motion between them and which constitutes...
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