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Motivation of Primary School Students for English Language Studies
Piňosová, Bohdana ; Mojžíšová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Prokop, Jiří (referee)
Currently, there are relatively few studies that focus on the motivation to learn foreign languages in children. This diploma thesis focuses on the attitude of primary school students towards the teaching of English. The theoretical part follows the concept of motivation from the point of view of psychology, pedagogy and current researches on foreign language teaching. The purpose of the practical part was to investigate their motivation to learn English and what aspects of teaching can demotivate them. The goal was to record, analyze, evaluate and interpret the obtained data. The research was conducted at a smaller elementary school in Prague, where English language instruction begins in the third grade. Data were obtained by a novel questionnaire with both open and closed questions. The analysis was then performed using mixed research. The quantitative part of the analysis, which monitored the popularity of the subject of English and the assessment of the attractiveness of individual activities in teaching, was carried out first. The qualitative part of the teaching, using open questions, sought answers to the reasons why the teaching is popular or not popular and what motivates the pupils to learn English. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that the majority of pupils perceive the...
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The possibilities of diagnosis of dyslexia in children
Matějovská, Lucie ; Morávková Krejčová, Lenka (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
The research study focuses on the development of new appropriate tools suitable for dyslexia assessment of primary school children (grades sixth to ninth), and a process of their pilot standardization. The inspiration was found in the existing tests for different age groups and methods used abroad. Four newly created tests were included into the test battery (test of visual perception, phonological manipulation, auditory segmentation and rapid automatized naming) as well as two already existing tests, which are a part of the validation study (test of auditory discrimination from Novak's Diagnosis of specific learning disabilities battery and Symbol search subtest from Wechsler intelligence scale for children). The research group consisted of 155 students of primary school (grades sixth to ninth), 61 dyslectics and 94 intact students. The results between the intact group and the dyslexic group differed significantly in all tests. The test of phonological manipulation showed the strongest differentiation. The study includes a correlation analysis between the tests and norms created for both groups. The presented predictive model was able to correctly identify 77.4 % of "cases" in relation to the criterion dyslexic - intact group.
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Addictive behavior on the Internet in relation to family environment in students of 7th-9th grades of primary schools in Pribram
Majerová, Žaneta ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Richterová, Lenka (referee)
Background: The Internet has become a regular part of our everyday life. Its use carries not only many indisputable advantages, but also certain risks - addictive behavior being one of them. Therefore, it is not surprising that many studies deal with this issue. Although several foreign studies have examined the connection between this phenomenon and selected factors of the family environment, I have not observed any such specific study in the Czech Republic. Aims: The aim of the theoretical part of this thesis is to provide information about an addictive behavior on the Internet, the family and its role in the life of an individual, in order to introduce the studies that have already been carried out. These were concerned with selected factors of the family environment in connection with addictive behavior on the Internet. The practical part of this thesis consists of my own research aimed at finding the prevalence of addictive behavior on the Internet and examining the connection between this phenomenon and the respondents' gender, divorce of parents, parents' education and types of family. Methods: The aims of the theoretical part of this bachelor thesis were achieved with the study of selected literature. Furthermore, the questions of the practical part were answered on the basis of evaluation...
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Text comprehension in primary school students - oral reading vs listening comprehension
Kubíková, Adéla ; Špačková, Klára (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee)
The main aim of the thesis are the mapping the level of understanding narrative text for student of fifth grade primary school with the typical development of reading skills. The thesis deal with the relationship between listening comprehension and reading comprehension. The thesis is traditionally divided into a theoretical and empirical part. The first part of the thesis prestnts the theoretical background research problems of comprehension the text. Attention is focused mainly on the domain of listening comprehension and reading comprehension, including a summary of the current state of knowledge about the relationship between both skills in foreign and Czech studies, as well as the diagnostics of reading and prerequisites that are reflected on the comprehensions the text. In the practical part are conclusions expected on its own research, which was attended by 40 students taught by the analytic-synthetic metod of reading, are compared with the results of the three year research project GAČR - Reading complrehension - typical development and its risks, where attended 59 students of fifth grade primary school taught by the same reading method. In addition to comprehension level will be monitored by level of basic language skills.
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The possibilities of diagnosis of dyslexia in children
Matějovská, Lucie ; Morávková Krejčová, Lenka (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
The research study focuses on the development of new appropriate tools suitable for dyslexia assessment of primary school children (grades sixth to ninth), and a process of their pilot standardization. The inspiration was found in the existing tests for different age groups and methods used abroad. Four newly created tests were included into the test battery (test of visual perception, phonological manipulation, auditory segmentation and rapid automatized naming) as well as two already existing tests, which are a part of the validation study (test of auditory discrimination from Novak's Diagnosis of specific learning disabilities battery and Symbol search subtest from Wechsler intelligence scale for children). The research group consisted of 155 students of primary school (grades sixth to ninth), 61 dyslectics and 94 intact students. The results between the intact group and the dyslexic group differed significantly in all tests. The test of phonological manipulation showed the strongest differentiation. The study includes a correlation analysis between the tests and norms created for both groups. The presented predictive model was able to correctly identify 77.4 % of "cases" in relation to the criterion dyslexic - intact group.
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