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Lecturer(s)
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Nová Petra, Mgr. et Mgr.
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Havelka Michal, Mgr.
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Course content
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Indicative Course Schedule Week 1: Initial Diagnostic Assessment Assessment of grammar, vocabulary, writing and speaking; identification of individual areas for improvement. Focus: self-correction, compensatory strategies, accuracy and fluency. Week 2: Declension and Precise Description Problematic case forms, agreement, plural forms and animacy; describing people, settings and situations. Focus: morphological accuracy and case government. Learning outcome: a coherent description followed by interaction and follow-up questions. Week 3: Valency and Formal Communication Valency of verbs, adjectives and nouns; prepositional phrases; requests, complaints and other forms of formal communication. Focus: government, polite formulations and clarification of information. Learning outcome: simulated formal communication in university and other contexts. Week 4: Verbal Aspect and Narration Aspectual pairs and triplets; narrating events, chronological sequencing, cause and effect. Focus: verbal aspect, temporal sequencing and linking devices. Learning outcome: coherent narration followed by interaction. Week 5: Prefixation, Verbs of Motion and Change Prefixation of verbs of motion, spatial and figurative meanings, verbs expressing change and development. Focus: meanings of prefixes and accurate choice of verbs. Learning outcome: describing and comparing changes and experiences. Week 6: Modality and Problem-Solving Modal verbs and the conditional; expressing necessity, possibility, recommendations and politeness. Focus: modality, the conditional and negotiation. Learning outcome: solving a problem, justifying a proposed solution and reaching a compromise. Week 7: Mid-Term Test; Word Order and Information Structure, Czech word order, clitics, given and new information, sentence stress and intonation. Focus: functional sentence perspective, thematic progression, sentence stress and intonation. Learning outcome: reformulating a message according to communicative intent. Week 8: Logical Relations and Argumentation Expressing cause, consequence, purpose, condition and concession; arguments for and against. Focus: complex sentence structures, linking devices and logical coherence. Learning outcome: discussion involving arguments and responses to objections. Week 9: Relative Constructions and Working with Information Relative constructions, který/jenž, reference and combining information; working with popular-science and general-interest texts. Focus: reference, paraphrasing, syntactic expansion and condensation. Learning outcome: oral summary of a text in the student's own words. Week 10: Passive Voice and Neutral Style Periphrastic and reflexive passive constructions, impersonal constructions; describing processes, rules and procedures. Focus: impersonal and objective expression; choosing between active and passive constructions. Learning outcome: a neutral description of a process, procedure or rule. Week 11: Word Formation and Vocabulary Development Word derivation, productive prefixes and suffixes, word families, paraphrasing and inferring meaning from context. Focus: word-formation relationships and active vocabulary development. Learning outcome: a short text demonstrating deliberate lexical variation. Week 12: Final Test; Collocations, fixed expressions, synonymy, shades of meaning and stylistic variation. Focus: synonyms and stylistic differences in vocabulary use. Week 13: Review and Course Evaluation Review of the final test, evaluation of the course and achieved learning outcomes, and recommendations for further study.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Collaborative instruction, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Seminar classes, Individual study, Students' self-study
- Practical training (number of hours)
- 10 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 15 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 10 hours per semester
- unspecified
- 10 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| - has a basic knowledge of Czech grammatical and lexical resources corresponding approximately to B2 level; - is familiar with the basic principles of Czech morphology, syntax, word formation and vocabulary; - knows the basic linguistic means used in everyday, academic and formal communication. |
| Skills |
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| - understands the main ideas of written and spoken texts of an appropriate level of difficulty; - can produce coherent spoken and written discourse on everyday and academic topics; - can express and briefly justify their own opinion and participate in everyday communication in Czech; - can use previously acquired grammatical and lexical resources, although their use may not yet be fully accurate or automatic. |
| Competences |
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| - is able to work independently with learning materials and complete assigned tasks; - can make use of feedback and reflect on their own language performance; - is able to participate actively in pair and group work; - is prepared to continue developing their language knowledge and skills systematically. |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| - has knowledge of and understands the core grammatical structures of Czech at B2 level, particularly in the areas of declension, verbal aspect, valency, modality, word order, passive constructions and complex sentence structures; - understands the principles of Czech word order, information structure and the use of clitics; - is familiar with the basic word-formation processes in Czech and the semantic relationships between related words; - knows common collocations, fixed expressions, synonymous means of expression and basic stylistic differences in vocabulary use; - understands the linguistic means used to express logical relationships, particularly cause, consequence, purpose, condition and concession; - understands the basic differences between neutral, formal and less formal language and their use in different communicative situations. |
| Skills |
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| - uses grammatical and lexical resources appropriate to B2 level accurately and appropriately in both spoken and written communication; - produces coherent and comprehensible descriptions, narratives, explanations and arguments; - formulates and defends their own point of view, responds to objections, and uses appropriate language for agreement, disagreement, recommendations and negotiation; - uses appropriate linguistic means in formal communication, particularly when formulating requests, complaints and other official messages; - summarises and paraphrases information from a text in their own words and distinguishes between main and supporting information; - connects information using appropriate cohesive devices and produces coherent spoken and written discourse; - selects appropriate lexical and stylistic means according to the communicative situation, the addressee and the purpose of communication; - uses word-formation relationships, context and paraphrasing to expand their vocabulary and compensate for lexical gaps; - identifies and corrects some of their own grammatical, lexical and stylistic errors. |
| Competences |
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| - independently applies the acquired language resources in everyday, academic and formal communicative situations; - adapts their language use to the communicative purpose, situation and addressee; - independently resolves communication difficulties through paraphrasing, circumlocution, clarification and other compensatory strategies; - actively participates in discussions, cooperates with communication partners and contributes to reaching a shared solution or compromise; - monitors their own language performance, identifies areas for improvement and uses feedback to enhance their performance; - independently works with authentic written and spoken texts appropriate to B2 level and uses the information obtained in further communication; - takes responsibility for their further language development and selects appropriate strategies for consolidating and extending their language competences. |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Seminar classes |
| Lecture |
| Skills |
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| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Skills demonstration |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| Students' portfolio |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Seminar |
| Competences |
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| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Seminar |
| Skills demonstration |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| Students' portfolio |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Portfolio |
| Peer evaluation of students |
| Oral exam |
| Continuous assessment |
| Self-evaluation |
| Skills |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Portfolio |
| Competences |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Holá, Lída; Bořilová, Pavla. Česky krok za krokem 2. Praha, 2009. ISBN 978-80-86903-92-7.
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Hradilová, Darina; Bednaříková, Božena,; Čermák, Michal; Dosoudilová, Markéta; Kopečková, Michaela,; Mášová, Jana; Svobodová, Jindřiška. Czech it UP! 4 : čeština pro cizince : úroveň B2 : učebnice. 1. vydání. 2020. ISBN 978-80-244-5771-0.
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Kestřánková, Marie; Šnaidaufová, Gabriela; Kopicová, Kateřina. Čeština pro cizince B2. ISBN 978-80-266-0178-4.
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