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Realisation of Selected Speech Acts by Foreign Learners of Czech
Genova, Julie ; Chejnová, Pavla (advisor) ; Hirschová, Milada (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to conduct a pragmatic analysis of speech acts as salutation, request, apology, offer and farewell in a written correspondence. The accent is primarily on expressions of politeness in each speech act. The analysis is researched in beginner students of the Czech language in a questionnaire before a lesson, in a written assignment after the lesson and then in the same assignment written by native speakers. The aim is to discover a proper way to teach the expression of the given speech acts as part of Czech for foreigners. The questionnaire filled before the lesson was compared with the assignment written after the lesson. Implementing the comparison, it is defined to what extent had the students improved their pragmatic competence in written correspondence. The same work was assigned to native Czech speakers and the expressions used in the lesson are evaluated based on their results compared with the results of non-native speakers. Through the research we concluded that the difference between the results before and after the lesson are striking. Uninstructed students have frequently expressed unintentionally less politely than it is customary to Czech language, sometimes even impolitely and these errors were predominantly eliminated in the written assignment. The...
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The integration of foreign language pupils into Czech lessons
Vrbenská, Veronika ; Šormová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Pierścieniak, Piotr Paweł (referee)
The bachelor's thesis analyzes the current situation and possibilities of Czech Primary school systém with the integration of foreign pupils with permanent resistance in the Czech republic into Czech language teaching. It deals with not only the options that are guaranteed by law, but also a possible collaboration between schools and other institutions or family. It provides the basic teaching aids that are available for education of these students. Based on the study of literature and consultation with teachers from two Prague Primary schools presents two case studies that describe a way of integrating foreign pupils in these schools, and measures which are succesful or not when working with them.
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Realia in Textbooks of Czech for Foreigners
Bukáčková, Marie ; Chejnová, Pavla (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
Resumé This master thesis is focused on description and summary of information about Czech politics, geography, sport, culture and Czech character which may be met by foreigner in selected textbooks for foreigners. The goal is to determine whether and how these findings correspond to the research about Czech culture and differences between national cultures, done by some scientists. The aim is to provide information in which way are shown in selected textbooks topics as power distance, role of man an woman in society, how are in textbooks described people from the point of age, if there is taken shape of competitiveness or cooperation, how the Czech ethnics is described, view on own history, what is the image of foreigners in textbooks and how is presented Czech culture. Works wonders whether the manner and content of the information presented about Czech culture can be understood by a foreign ethnic group, which is currently living in the Czech Republic.
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Grammatical Category of Time in Czech Language Textbooks for Deaf Pupils and for Foreigners
Levorová, Eva ; Petráňová, Romana (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee)
The thesis focuses on the way the grammatical category of time is presented in chosen textbooks of the Czech language for deaf and for foreigners. A small questionnaire survey, establishing which textbooks the teachers actually use in teaching Czech for deaf, whether they work also with textbooks for foreigners and what other materials they possibly use, is included. All the textbooks mentioned in the questionnaires are later analysed from the view of their presentation of the grammatical category of time, separately those for deaf and those for foreigners. In the second ones, inspiration for teaching deaf is being traced. At the end of the work there is an author's draft chapter of a textbook for deaf dealing with a part of the issue of verbs and times. The draft text contains an explanation and few exercises and concentrates on problematic phenomena.
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Czech for Foreigners in the Preschool Education Institutions
Hušáková, Barbora ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
v anglickém jazyce The present M.A. thesis deals with teaching the Czech for foreigners in the preschool education institution. The work with the preschool children is connected with lots of specifics and thus it requires teacherʼs special attitude towards their very young learners. Children- foreigners often come from families, where nobody speaks Czech and their vocabulary is very restricted. Therefore, their inclusion into the Czech educational environment is not easy. In the theoretical part, at first we will focus on analysis of curriculum documents for preschool education, particularly with regard to children-foreigners. Afterwards, we will pay oneʼs attention to possibilities of support of integration of children-foreigners during education in Czech preschool institutions. After that, we will outline the aspects accompanying foreigners' integration into teaching and theoretical ways for child-foreigners integration process. At the end of the theoretical part, we characterize group and individual courses. Two case studies are subject of the empirical part and they contain the complex analysis of situation of children-foreigners in selected preschool institutions.
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Visualization of text as a means of improving the reading skills of understanding with pupils with a different mother tongue in primary school
Vaněčková, Lucie ; Horáčková, Klára (advisor) ; Whitcroft, Ladislava (referee)
In my diploma thesis I am dealing with the problematics of reading comprehension by children with a different mother tongue (immigrant children) at the elementary school. I point out the importance of visualization in the learning process and various forms of graphic text visualizations which help the children to comprehend and adopt the syllabus. I specifically concentrate on texts in the subjects Science and History which are demanding for immigrant children, mainly because of a high number of special words and information. In the theoretical part I give brief information about the education of immigrant children at Czech schools, their problems in the Czech language, reading comprehension, the visualization and the possibilities of graphic visualizations. In the practical part I decided to use a qualitative survey, namely the method of the case study. I use the method of participant observation and in-depth interviews with the teacher and the student who I create for the special worksheets based on principle of graphic visualization and I monitor and examine their progress in adopting the vocabulary and discussed syllabus. The aim of my thesis is to map the forms of text visualizations, to use them appropriately when creating the working sheets, to incorporate them into the training of reading...
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The Audio Course as the Means of Teaching Czech as a Foreign Language
Dusilová, Tereza ; Škodová, Svatava (advisor) ; Prokšová, Hana (referee)
This thesis concerns audio courses as the means of teaching of foreign languages. In the theoretical part, it deals with historical context of language audio courses. By way of describing the development of teaching methods (grammar-translation method, direct method and audio-lingual method in particular), it presents main principles of audio courses. Due to the main target group of language audio courses in general and also the audio course of Czech for foreigners that was created as a project to this thesis, it also deals with A1 language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. In the practical part, it concerns with analysis of three audio courses - the Berlitz's Češkij jazyk: bazovyj kurs, the Pimsleur's Speak and Read Essential Czech and the new project audio course. The last mentioned audio course was pretested and the results are provided in form of case studies. Key words audio course, audiolingual method, Berlitz, Czech for foreigners, Pimsleur, direct method
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Vrátný Černý na dovolené v Deštném: about nouns with the adjective form
Spinková, Stanislava
The paper deals with Czech nouns which are formal adjectives. There are f. e. names of persons (f. e. vrátný, pokojská), types of meat or drinks (f. e. kuřecí, plzeňské), names of biological families (psovití, hřibovité) etc. ranked among these nouns and some surnames (f. e. Černý) or geographic names (f. e. Deštné) as well. They are formed by adjectival suffixes and declined as adjectives
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Czech as a target language. An up-to-date evidence of Czech reference books available in the Czech Republic for our German fellow inhabitants
COUFALOVÁ, Markéta
This Bachelor thesis discusses Czech as a modern foreign language. It focuses on Czech language courses for foreigners, and on the teaching materials used there particularly Czech language text books for German-speaking foreigners. We are offered a deeper insight into Czech language courses in the Czech Republic and German-speaking countries; mainly Germany, Austria and Switzerland, based on a survey. Moreover, the thesis pays particular attention to teaching materials for German-speaking foreigners who are interested in learning Czech. In the end, the findings gathered from the survey research and analyses of Czech language teaching materials for foreigners will be put to good use; to create a draft of a vocabulary book with exercices for Czech language courses.
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