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An Application for Creative Writing
Magdolen, Patrik ; Podivínský, Jakub (referee) ; Krčma, Martin (advisor)
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the design and the implementation of the application, supposed to support comfortable writing of prose and offer helpful features like a management of chapters, characters and notes. It is able to automatically detect titles of chapters and names of characters in text. Application also offers other functions assisting the writer, including a name generator and an ability to set goals. The application includes multilingual multiplatform modern and personalizable GUI, which focuses on aesthetic, practicality and lucidity. Results of a usage of the application are exported into output file of various types.
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A fairy tale as means to preschool child development
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Nikola
The bachelor thesis is focused on working with an authored fairy tale with preschool children in a kindergarten environment. The theoretical part contains three basic chapters. The first chapter introduces the characteristics, historical development and basic classification of fairy tales. It summarizes the function of fairy tales in preschool education and discusses the language style of fairy tales. The second chapter is focused on the fairy tale as a tool in preschool education. The third chapter deals with the analysis of the Preschool education curriculum framework (PECF) and the learning domains. The practical part deals with the implementation of philosophical discussion, creative writing and artistic elaboration of the authored fairy tale. Furthermore, it deals with the research investigation of the influence of a fairy tale story on a group of children in kindergarten.
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Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School
Týblová, Kateřina ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
TITLE: Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School AUTHOR: Kateřina Týblová DEPARTMENT: Department of Czech Literature SUPERVISOR: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Hník, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: In her diploma thesis Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School the author discusses teaching fables in Literary Education lessons during the last year of Elementary School. In the theoretical part, she briefly describes the features and history of fable and specifies the target age group. The main part of the thesis is the practical part. In the practical part, the author presents her suggestions for fable teaching activities as well as three ninety minute lesson plans. Finally, the author reflects on the realization of the lessons. KEYWORDS: Literary Education, children's literature, eleven year olds, creative writing, fables, allegory
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Developing writing as a key communication skill
Skřivanová, Martina ; Švermová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Nečasová, Pavla (referee)
Developing writing as a key communication skill Abstract The thesis focuses on the development of writing, with special emphasis being put on the mandatory written essay that is required as a part of the foreign language maturita exam. The opening chapters introduce the definition of writing skill and theoretically propose ways to improve and develop the skill, as well as examine the factors that influence its quality. Further methods and approaches centered on writing are suggested to be utilised in lessons. Furthermore, RWCT methods along with creative writing techniques are presented. These particular methods are observed in the research following two control groups of students and their writing skills development. The aim was to juxtapose and compare the groups in question, with one of the groups being subjected to alternative methods. It also aims to analyse a textbook in terms of featured exercises in regards to the writing skill development. A presentation of suitable activities that could be used in classes to improve the quality of writing is an essential part of the thesis, as well as the examination of related curricular documents in the Czech educational system, especially concerning the maturita exam. Keywords: communication skills, writing as a productive skill, German language writing...
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Fanfiction in context of teaching czech language
Bradáčová, Barbora ; Zimová, Lucie (advisor) ; Hník, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with applying fanfiction to the Czech language and literature lessons for the 2nd stage of basic school. The main focus is on writing with esthetical focus. First part deals with fanfiction set on its application in education. Next part is studying the demands of Czech curriculum on teaching writing methods and the goals and methods of creative writing. Third part opens the possibilities of fanfiction and discusses reasons why fanfiction is useful. It gives ideas how to use fanfiction in education in specific ways to explore student's literacy and other skills. Last part contains four lesson plans based on work with fanfiction and its curriculum's themes. Three of these lessons were experienced with years 7, 8 and 9 students. Applying fanfiction seems to be useful, especially with theme setting and students' motivation.
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Creative writing as form of mental tension processing: motivation to creative work, course of creative process and healing aspects of creative writing
Kdolská, Helena ; Viktorová, Ida (advisor) ; Kučera, Miloš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the aspect of creative writing as a form of mental tension treatment. Thesis covers basic elements of working with mental tension such as motivation for writing, creative process and its results. Respondents, which are close friends of mine, are regulary writing stories in a time of discomfort. All of them are women between twenty one and twenty six years old and also college students. At first they were told to write a story in a time of unhappinnes. After that a meeting was scheduled where the said story was discussed and acquired data were furtherly processed by quantitative research method. A basic outline of knowledge about motivation for writing and added value of creative writing was obtained from this thesis.
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Effectiveness of the Creative Writing Method to Develop Writing Skills in Czech as Foreign/Second Language
Stárková, Zuzana ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Šindelářová, Jaromíra (referee) ; Hrdlička, Milan (referee)
This dissertation concentrates on the development of writing skills in learners of Czech as a foreign/second language at A2-B2 levels. It aims to determine whether creative writing has positive influence on linguistic and discursive competence in acquiring Czech, as opposed to classic approaches. For these purposes, a probe was conducted in form of a one-semester qualitative action research. The sample consisted of 30 non-native University respondents. They were divided into two experimental and two control groups - with upmost regard to their comparability in terms of language levels, socio-linguistic parameters, the genres and topics assigned, as well as the number of lessons taught. In experimental groups, the writing skills was developed by the method of creative writing while the control groups were taught by means of traditional approach. After the semester, in case of experimental group I and control group I (at levels B1/B2), comparable increase in competences took place, therefore it can be concluded that the creative writing method may influence the development of the writing skills positively. In case of experimental group II and control group II (at levels A2/B1), the results are ambiguous. Nevertheless, the experimental groups̕ respondents had higher sureness in drafting.
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Possibilities of seminars of creative writing on the high school
Horák, Filip ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Peterka, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis Possibilities of seminars of creative writing in high school seeks to describe and theoretically explicate the implementation of creative writing into high school education. The thesis is divided into two parts - a theoretical and a practical one. The theoretical part focuses on the author's conception of creative writing, on the possibilities and components of creative writing understood as both a teaching method and a subject. The section also deals with the interconnection of teaching of creative writing and the Framework Educational Programme. In particular, it discusses the relation of the subject to key competencies and cross-curricular subject. The main goal of the theoretical part is to propose a creative writing thematic plan for high school. In the practical part, concrete activities and preparations for teaching of creative writing are presented. Furthermore, the part includes description of the course of some lessons and also reflection of lessons that have already been given from the teacher's and students' perspective. The purpose of the diploma thesis is twofold. First, it consists in the evaluation of the use of creative writing teaching in high school with regard to its background in curricular documents. Second, the thesis can serve as a source of inspiration...
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Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School
Týblová, Kateřina ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
TITLE: Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School AUTHOR: Kateřina Týblová DEPARTMENT: Department of Czech Literature SUPERVISOR: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Hník, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: In her diploma thesis Use of Fables in the 5th Grade of Elementary School the author discusses teaching fables in Literary Education lessons during the last year of Elementary School. In the theoretical part, she briefly describes the features and history of fable and specifies the target age group. The main part of the thesis is the practical part. In the practical part, the author presents her suggestions for fable teaching activities as well as three ninety minute lesson plans. Finally, the author reflects on the realization of the lessons. KEYWORDS: Literary Education, children's literature, eleven year olds, creative writing, fables, allegory
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An Application for Creative Writing
Magdolen, Patrik ; Podivínský, Jakub (referee) ; Krčma, Martin (advisor)
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the design and the implementation of the application, supposed to support comfortable writing of prose and offer helpful features like a management of chapters, characters and notes. It is able to automatically detect titles of chapters and names of characters in text. Application also offers other functions assisting the writer, including a name generator and an ability to set goals. The application includes multilingual multiplatform modern and personalizable GUI, which focuses on aesthetic, practicality and lucidity. Results of a usage of the application are exported into output file of various types.
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