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Game as a means of developing mediation
Podloucká, Barbora ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (referee)
Title of the thesis Game as a means of developing mediation Abstract in English This diploma thesis focuses on the theme of game as a means of developing mediation. In the theoretical part it discusses the notion of mediation, its concept in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume, the means and forms of mediation, the importance of mediation in foreign languages teaching. Major emphasis is placed on theme of mediation activities (mediation communication, mediating a text, mediating concepts). Moreover, the theoretical part concerns the issus of games, their definition from a didactic point of view and points to the mutual aspects of games and mediation. In the practical part, it focuses on analysis of specific games developing mediation. The games are classified according to what mediation activity they develop. For each game it is described minutely how it develops the given mediation activity. These games could be used as teaching materials for teachers or be an inspiration for their own formation. The diploma thesis opens new possibilities for diversifying the teaching of French language. KEYWORDS Mediation, game, FLE, French language, language teaching, competence
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Firefox OS Application for Learning Languages
Chudík, Jakub ; Fiedor, Tomáš (referee) ; Vojnar, Tomáš (advisor)
Tato práce se zabývá vytvořením aplikace pro výuku jazyků specificky pro mobilní operační systém Firefox OS. Vzhledem k své povaze, uživatelské rozhraní aplikace se snaží uspokojit ergonomické potřeby aplikací určených pro kapesní zařízení. Aplikuje několik konceptů gamifikace ke zlepšení procesu učení, jehož výsledky jsou prezentovány a vyhodnoceny. Aplikace také přináší své vlastní jedinečné vlastnosti, které jí pomáhají vyniknout mezi ostatními aplikacemi pro výuku jazyků.
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Use of media in English lessons in Czechia
Procházková, Pavla ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis, entitled "Use of Media in English Lessons in the Czech Republic" is to evaluate the use of old, classic and new media in teaching English in Czech primary and secondary schools, as well as in private lessons conducted by English language tutors. In the first part, the work introduces old and new media in the Czech education system and individual types of new media, presents historical media used for teaching English in our countries, provides an overview of the media used at the present time and, above all, introduces websites and applications developed for teaching English. The results of recent studies dedicated to the investigated issue are also presented. The research objective of the practical part is the analysis of the answers of 50 educators obtained using a questionnaire survey, answers to questions regarding the use of old and new media in the teaching of the English language, namely in the time before the coronavirus pandemic, in the time of distance learning during the pandemic and now, as well as qualitative research of the most used new media tools in English lessons. The research methods are literature searches, qualitative research methods, questionnaire surveys and analysis of questionnaire survey results using quantitative and qualitative research...
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Teaching mediation in the foreign language classroom
Komendová, Gabriela ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (referee)
The paper Teaching mediation in the foreign language classroom concerns itself with mediation as one of the communicative activities or modes of communication defined by the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages' Companion Volume and the possibilities of teaching mediation as part of teaching foreign languages, French in particular. Its principal aims are to familiarise language teachers and other language education professionals with the essentials of mediation and to provide teachers with a mediation task creating manual including mediation- oriented lesson plans for French language teaching. The theoretical part of the paper deals with how mediation is represented in the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages and in the Companion Volume, as well as with mediation tasks, their characteristics, types, and the parameters that need to be considered when planning mediation teaching. The practical part consists of two stages. The first is an analysis of mediation tasks published in various contemporary French language textbooks based on criteria established in the theoretical part of the paper. The other describes mediation-oriented French lessons taught on the basis of lesson plans designed as part of the present thesis to four groups of secondary school students with varying...
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Media education - incorporation into language education and teaching materials for teachers of English
Oršošová, Lenka ; Syřiště, Ivo (advisor) ; Hanková, Zdeňka (referee)
Messages delivered by the media are often used as a source of authentic texts in language teaching, yet there is not a sufficient amount of works dealing with the connection between media education and language teaching. The theoretical part of this thesis, therefore, tries to describe this relationship from the perspective of media studies, linguistics and language teaching methodology. The aim of this work is to create teaching materials incorporating media education into teaching English as a foreign language. The materials consist of worksheets for students and methodological support for teachers. Key words media education, language teaching, authentic text, context, curricular documents, teaching materials, worksheets, methodological support
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Multimedia in the Teaching of French language
Haagerová, Eva ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Suková Vychopňová, Kateřina (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the multimedia support in the teaching of French and concepts that are associated with this issue, such as the medium, multimedia and modern technology. It is also specializes in multimedia foreign language teaching and multimedia teaching support with the help of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), video, animation and sound. The theoretical part ends with concepts related to multimedia teaching. It is about interactivity, interactive utility and also about media literacy, which is one of the pillars of digital literacy. The practical part deals with French textbooks. It examines their universality, the degree of involvement of multimedia assignments and their time intensity. Finally, we propose alternations of multimedia support in the analyzed textbooks. The conclusion is that the examined textbooks were insufficient from the point of view of the use of multimedia support, so it is up to the teacher to invent the exercise himself with the help of multimedia support.
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Bilingual education from the perspective of a primary school pupil
Sochovská, Markéta ; Vallin, Petra (advisor) ; Novotná, Kateřina (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on bilingual education from the perspective of primary school pupil and describes learning through two languages in broader context. The theoretical part characterizes the term of bilingual education and describes its various models and forms that are implemented in schools. The second part of the thesis employs semi-structured interviews and tries to find out what is the opinion of the pupils of Toscool bilingual program. The goal is to interpret the data and suggest a set of recommendations to improve the bilingual program. KEYWORDS bilingualism, bilingual education, mother language, bilingual family, language education, perspective of a student
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Media education - incorporation into language education and teaching materials for teachers of English
Oršošová, Lenka ; Syřiště, Ivo (advisor) ; Hanková, Zdeňka (referee)
Messages delivered by the media are often used as a source of authentic texts in language teaching, yet there is not a sufficient amount of works dealing with the connection between media education and language teaching. The theoretical part of this thesis, therefore, tries to describe this relationship from the perspective of media studies, linguistics and language teaching methodology. The aim of this work is to create teaching materials incorporating media education into teaching English as a foreign language. The materials consist of worksheets for students and methodological support for teachers. Key words media education, language teaching, authentic text, context, curricular documents, teaching materials, worksheets, methodological support
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Firefox OS Application for Learning Languages
Chudík, Jakub ; Fiedor, Tomáš (referee) ; Vojnar, Tomáš (advisor)
Tato práce se zabývá vytvořením aplikace pro výuku jazyků specificky pro mobilní operační systém Firefox OS. Vzhledem k své povaze, uživatelské rozhraní aplikace se snaží uspokojit ergonomické potřeby aplikací určených pro kapesní zařízení. Aplikuje několik konceptů gamifikace ke zlepšení procesu učení, jehož výsledky jsou prezentovány a vyhodnoceny. Aplikace také přináší své vlastní jedinečné vlastnosti, které jí pomáhají vyniknout mezi ostatními aplikacemi pro výuku jazyků.
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