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Czech Teachers' Subjective Theories about Grammar
Hurytová, Ivana ; Štěpáník, Stanislav (advisor) ; Grecmanová, Helena (referee) ; Liptáková, L'udmila (referee)
The dissertation is devoted to the so-called subjective theories of teachers of the lower- secondary level of elementary schools. Its aim is to examine the subjective theories of grammar among teachers of the Czech language at the secondary level of elementary school and to analyze the influence these theories have on shaping the teaching and learning environment of the Czech language at the secondary level of elementary school. The theoretical part is devoted to two basic topics: the first chapter presents the concept of subjective theories in foreign and domestic research, including the implications of the given phenomenon in the teaching of the mother tongue. The second chapter presents the current state of grammar teaching as one of the critical areas of Czech language teaching and the starting point of current mother tongue didactics. The empirical part was processed using qualitative research methods. Preliminary research, carried out on a sample of 20 teachers, provides the first data and tests one of the research tools, a questionnaire with unfinished statements. The main research consists of two phases. The pilot phase represents a deeper probe into the subjective theories of one female teacher using two research tools, a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. In the second phase...
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Use of the Czech National Corpus in teaching the Czech language
ZEMANOVÁ, Žaneta
The diploma thesis is focused on the use of the Czech National Corpus in the teaching of the Czech language at a grammar school, especially at lower-secondary school. The work is divided into theoretical and research part. The purpose of the theoretical part is to define a basic overview of the didactics of the Czech language, corpus linguistics, the Czech National Corpus and lexicology. The empirical part describes creation of a worksheet focused on lexicology, especially phraseology. It also summarizes the results of student work. Data from the written corpus KonText and WaG were used to create the worksheet.
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Word Classes in the Czech Language Teaching Methodology for Primary School
DIERZÉ, Lenka
The thesis focuses on word classes in the Czech language teaching methodology for primary school. The thesis consists of two parts - the theoretical one and the practical one. The theoretical part explains the concept and meaning of word classes and introduces methods facilitating the acquisition of word classes by younger students. It also highlights possible difficulties associated with teaching this topic. The practical part analyses several sets of primary school textbooks and describes the most frequent difficulties teachers encounter while teaching word classes. At the end there are several recommendations and suggestions which may facilitate the learning of word classes by children.
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Critical spelling areas in the 2nd level of elementary school
Choutková, Simona ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eliška (referee)
This master thesis deals with critical spelling areas in the 2nd level of elementary school. The aim of the thesis is to get an overview of the spelling skills of pupils in one particular elementary school and to find out what spelling areas are the most difficult for pupils on the basis of comparison between different grades. Dictation, gap fill exercises and creative writing are used to investigate pupils' spelling skills. The different forms were chosen because we assume that pupils do not make the same mistakes in all types of spelling exercises. In the theoretical part, spelling is described both from a linguistic and didactic point of view. In the practical part, the research methodology is first presented and assumptions are made, which are evaluated in the conclusion of the paper. The description of the methodology is followed by the research results themselves, which are divided by year and by spelling areas for clarity. The results of the creative writing are commented on separately. The research also investigated how Czech language teachers feel about teaching spelling, how spelling is acquired and whether pupils consider spelling skills important. Our main assumption that pupils in grade 9 would show significantly better spelling skills than pupils in grade 6 was fulfilled in most...
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Method of Integration of Valency Syntax into the Czech Language Teaching within Lower Secondary Education
Žiláková, Renata ; Machová, Svatava (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee) ; Čechová, Marie (referee)
The dissertation called the Method of Integration of Valency Syntax into the Czech Language Teaching within Lower Secondary Education deals with the issue of valency syntax in relation to syntax teaching within lower secondary education. The main goal of the dissertation is to describe, specify and define the principles, which serve as the basis for the integration of the valency theory into the Czech language teaching within lower secondary education with regard to pupils' concepts of the structure of a Czech sentence. In its three main parts, the dissertation informs the reader about the development of the perception of the valency syntax as a scientific discipline in the Czech and foreign environment, as the didactic transformation of the curriculum must be always based on scientific theories and comply with them; the second part of the thesis analyses the didactically transformed curriculum of valency syntax in teaching materials intended for lower secondary education. On the basis of a practical quality research, the third part defines pupils' preconcepts related to the formal and semantic structure of a sentence. Among other things, the submitted dissertation points out to the necessity of monitoring the pupils' preconcepts in the Czech language teaching in order to ensure that the teaching is not...
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Czech Language Teaching at Scioschools - a Case Study
Mejstříková, Kateřina Bernadeta ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Vlčková, Jana (referee)
This thesis focuses on the teaching of the Czech language at scioschools. The theoretical basis of Czech language didactics and the problematicsof alternative education are discussed in the first part, while the second part characterizes the individual scioschools in terms of their general concept and teaching of Czech language. The thesis is fomulated as a case study and is methodologically based on observation, interviews and document analysis. Its aim is to provide a partial insight into the practice of Czech language teaching at scioschools and to answer how and with what goal is Czech language taught. It analyses whether some innovative methods and forms of work reflecting the current topics of Czech language didactics are applied and whether is there are any unifying concepts of Czech language teaching. While this work provides insight into these issues it concludes that scioschools aim to lead the students to so-called study autonomy. Scioschools do not work with a unified concept of teaching. It find that the current Czech language teaching practice - forms of teaching, application of innovative methods or aims are heavily influenced by the personality, knowledge and experiences of the teacher - tutor. KEYWORDS scioschools, alternative school, tutor, didactics of the Czech language, aims of...
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Constructivism in Czech Language Teaching at Higher-Secondary School
Štěpáník, Stanislav ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor)
The dissertation explores the opportunities and limits of implementing constructivist elements into Czech language education. While in didactics of mathematics and sciences the perspective of constructivism has been dynamically developing, in language didactics it is an area which has not been satisfactorily dealt with. The effectiveness of a designed constructivist teaching strategy in contrast with a traditional one has been tested on a selected part of content matter of Czech syntax (relations in compound sentences) in the terrain of two classes of higher-secondary school. Constructivist teaching utilizes students' conceptions; therefore before the experiment itself, students' conceptions of the content matter were researched on one selected subject. The outcomes were then taken into account when creating the experimental strategy. It is necessary for teaching Czech that it makes use of the students' preconceptions and their natural language competence, and that teaching has a semantic- functional, or communication approach to the language phenomena taught. The results of the research suggest that it is possible to implement constructivist features into Czech language teaching successfully, and that their effectiveness in certain aspects might be higher than it is with traditional strategies. In any...
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Intelectually gifted pupil in the basic school - development in Czech language classes
Chejnovská, Lenka ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
This theses focuses on intellectually talented pupils and from the narrower point of view on pupils of the Czech language at the second level of an elementary school. In the theoretical part, the author deals with a talent for the Czech language, definitions and concepts of a given issue, existing models, characteristics of gifted pupils and approaches of Czech schools towards the education of these pupils. This theses also focuses on linguistic intelligence and personality of teachers of gifted pupils. The aim is to reveal what are the experiences of the teachers of the Czech language with the gifted students and what differences are there between gifted individuals and ordinary students. For this solution is used a structured interview method. The next aim is to find out the attitudes of gifted pupils towards a taught subject. A semi-structured interview method is used to meet this aim. The final aim is to find differences between results of talented pupils and ordinary pupils in the subject of the Czech language. As an appropriate method was chosen a didactic test.
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Method of Integration of Valency Syntax into the Czech Language Teaching within Lower Secondary Education
Žiláková, Renata ; Machová, Svatava (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee) ; Čechová, Marie (referee)
The dissertation called the Method of Integration of Valency Syntax into the Czech Language Teaching within Lower Secondary Education deals with the issue of valency syntax in relation to syntax teaching within lower secondary education. The main goal of the dissertation is to describe, specify and define the principles, which serve as the basis for the integration of the valency theory into the Czech language teaching within lower secondary education with regard to pupils' concepts of the structure of a Czech sentence. In its three main parts, the dissertation informs the reader about the development of the perception of the valency syntax as a scientific discipline in the Czech and foreign environment, as the didactic transformation of the curriculum must be always based on scientific theories and comply with them; the second part of the thesis analyses the didactically transformed curriculum of valency syntax in teaching materials intended for lower secondary education. On the basis of a practical quality research, the third part defines pupils' preconcepts related to the formal and semantic structure of a sentence. Among other things, the submitted dissertation points out to the necessity of monitoring the pupils' preconcepts in the Czech language teaching in order to ensure that the teaching is not...
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Constructivism in Czech Language Teaching at Higher-Secondary School
Štěpáník, Stanislav ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor) ; Slavík, Jan (referee) ; Svobodová, Jana (referee)
The dissertation explores the opportunities and limits of implementing constructivist elements into Czech language education. While in didactics of mathematics and sciences the perspective of constructivism has been dynamically developing, in language didactics it is an area which has not been satisfactorily dealt with. The effectiveness of a designed constructivist teaching strategy in contrast with a traditional one has been tested on a selected part of content matter of Czech syntax (relations in compound sentences) in the terrain of two classes of higher-secondary school. Constructivist teaching utilizes students' conceptions; therefore before the experiment itself, students' conceptions of the content matter were researched on one selected subject. The outcomes were then taken into account when creating the experimental strategy. It is necessary for teaching Czech that it makes use of the students' preconceptions and their natural language competence, and that teaching has a semantic- functional, or communication approach to the language phenomena taught. The results of the research suggest that it is possible to implement constructivist features into Czech language teaching successfully, and that their effectiveness in certain aspects might be higher than it is with traditional strategies. In any...
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