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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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Fairy Tales in French Language Teaching
Stolínová, Markéta ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Fučíková, Milena (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of fairy tales in French language teaching. The first part is dedicated to the definition of fairy tales as literary texts and to the presentation of general aspects related to the use of literary forms in foreign language teaching. The subsequent parts are focused exclusively on fairy tales. First of all, the fairytale genre is generally introduced. Afterwards, several ways of the application of fairy tales in French classes are outlined, with regard to the focus on language skills and sub-skills. The practical part includes more subsections, however, it mainly aims at the analysis of the role of fairy tales in French language teaching in the Czech Republic. Therefore, it consists of the analysis of significant French textbooks and of a questionnaire survey aimed at Czech lower secondary and high school teachers. The textbook analysis verifies the presence of fairy tales in didactic materials, whereas the aforementioned survey examines the experience and opinions of foreign language teachers on this issue. Finally, three worksheets, based on recently acquired knowledge, are created to serve as the source of inspiration and motivation for the use of fairy tales in foreign language teaching. KEYWORDS fairy tales, French language teaching, literary text,...
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Actual situation of learning French. A comparative study on classic and alternative methods
KADLECOVÁ, Alena
This thesis deals with the description of the contemporary situation in the French language teaching in the Czech Republic with a view to the comparison of traditional and alternative teaching methods. The first part of the thesis consists of the description of the historical development of the teaching methods and their characteristics. Then I point out the problems related to the classification of the teaching methods and their division into two main groups of traditional and alternative methods. The comparison of the two groups of methods is included in the third chapter of the thesis. In the last part a questionnaire was used to find out the opinions of teachers and students and I also show selected data concerning the contemporary situation in foreign languages teaching in the school year 2005/ 2006.
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