Publication details
Vizualizace českého jazyka pro cizince
| Title in English | Visualization of Czech for foreigners |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of this paper is to point out the possibility of re-presentation of grammatical and syntactical plan of Czech language by showing in graphic (visualization of particular phenomenon) or physical way (through the human body, especially by hand). Czech grammar is fusional: its nouns, verbs, and adjectives are inflected by phonological processes to modify their meanings and grammatical functions; Czech word order is relatively free. That is why students of Czech language as foreign language often experience difficulties while surmounting this barrier. Visualization of individual grammatical functions (cases, verbal forms) allows student to understand the language easier and start to use it in everyday communication sooner. Using the human body (especially hands) as always accessible aids then eliminates problems with the construction of Czech sentences (especially with regards to the word order: the position of reflexive pronouns and enclitic, the auxiliary verb in the past tense and conditional). Inherent dialogue character of statement allows speakers to use questions as background or backdrop for an answer. |
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