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Intelligibility of Lexical Units in the Extracts From Reading-Books for Pupils of Lower Secondary Schools
Pastýříková, Barbora ; Nedvědová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of comprehensibility of lexical units in examples from reading-books for lower secondary school pupils. The work is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with lexicology and individual concepts that relate to this linguistic discipline and the subject of research. It also includes a discussion of writing style, current research, the concept of teaching the Czech language and the relationship of RVP to teaching vocabulary. The practical research part presents and interprets data obtained from quantitative and qualitative research conducted at two schools. The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey and subsequent interviews with pupils of the 6th and 9th grades of lower secondary school. The questionnaires contained the highlighted lexemes under study in excerpted sentences selected from the reading books intended for the respective classes. The aim of the research was to find out whether the pupils understand the words listed in the questionnaire, whether they can explain them or replace them with synonyms or whether they can derive their meaning from the context of the sentence. In our work, we focused on words that appear in fictional writings and which we evaluated as challenging to explain...
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Lexicon Evaluation of Preschool Children
Brožová, Kateřina ; Klenková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Horynová, Jana (referee)
The diploma thesis Lexicon Evaluation of Preschool Children is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part of this work on speech therapy describes within four chapters the Czech vocabulary, psychological development of children up to the school maturity, speech development also up to the school maturity and finally presents diagnostic materials used in the Czech Republic for school maturity diagnostics and diagnostics of the lexical-semantic speech level. The practical part includes a quantitative research performed on children respondents in preschool classes in maternity schools. The main goal of this speech-therapy research was the modernization and verification of a testing set aimed at active vocabulary. The main reason was the fact that there is a lack of any adequate material for testing vocabulary in the Czech Republic. The new testing set could be also used as a subtest for school maturity diagnostics. The research conclusions were compared with the real situation of the tested children as referred by their teachers. As a part of the practical part there is the establishment of the research aims and hypotheses, and subsequently the research description, verification of the established hypotheses and definition of research conclusions. KEYWORDS Speech development,...
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Communication skills of children with cochlear implants
Humlová, Dominika ; Hádková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Kotvová, Miroslava (referee)
The content of this thesis is a theoretical introduction to the topic of hearing impairment, its classification, diagnosis and compensation options. Furthermore the work deals with a cochlear implant as the compensation aid. It describes the entire process of choosing the cochlear implantation candidates, the operation itself, setting of the speech processor and subsequent rehabilitation. The thesis also deals with communication competence and speech development not only of children with hearing impairment but also without hearing disorders. After the performance of the available diagnostic tools used for vocabulary testing, the work describes a research process of identifying the vocabulary level in children with cochlear implants by the use of appropriate passive and active vocabulary test and interprets obtained results. KEYWORDS: cochlear implant, communication skills, passive vocabulary, active vocabulary, a child with a cochlear implant, Test of the passive and active vocabulary
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