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Use of literary text in French teaching on Czech high schools
Brodinová, Anna ; Loucká, Hana (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
Title: Literary text in French language teaching at Czech high schools Author: Bc. Anna Brodinová, anna.brodinova@gmail.com Department: Institute of Romance studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Supervisor: PhDr. Hana Loucká, CSc. Number of characters: 147 252 Keywords: literary text, poetical text, prose, dramatic text, French teaching, high school Abstract: Literary text, meaning a text enriched with aestethical quality, represents one means to convey culture of a country. Its role in foreing language teaching is to help strenghten communicative competency and develop socio-cultural competency. The way literary text is used in didactics and approached in general has changed considerably in terms of individual methodical principles of foreign language teaching. Firstly, in the period of grammar- translation method, literary text was of the utmost importance, contrary to the beginning of the period of direct methods when it was completely abandonned. Nowadays, literary text is understood as one of the effective supplements in foreing language teaching. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, considered to be a fundamental document for principles of foreign language teaching at present, identifies for each level of proficiency the ability of reading comprehension. This ability...
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Language Tamers: Methods of Overcoming Language Barrier by Immigrant Students at Czech Schools
Strnadová, Kristýna ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Gorčíková, Magdaléna (referee)
Kristýna Strnadová Thesis name: Language tamers: methods of overcoming language barrier by immigrant students at Czech schools Abstract The thesis 'Language tamers: methods of overcoming language barrier by immigrant students at Czech schools' deals with a phenomenon of overcoming language barrier through acquisition of the host language for immigrants who move to a new country. The aim of this work is to monitor the progress of overcoming language barrier from the perspective of immigrant students with regard to various factors that affect the process (cultural and social capital, language, age etc.). The theoretical part describes the fundamental importance of the host language as a means of communication in the context of immigrant integration to the new society, outlines the specifics of the intercultural communication between people of different nationalities, summarizes the factors which influence the acquisition of the host language, and acquaint with the situation in Czech schools in conjunction with the language barrier. The empirical part is based on semi-structured interviews with immigrant students of three different nationalities (Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Romanian). Collected interviews are analysed via descriptive and evaluation coding and on their basis are reached characteristics of the...
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