Publication details
Komunikační přístup ve výuce cizích jazyků: záležitost politických dokumentů či reálné praxe?
| Title in English | The communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages: a matter of curricular documents or teaching practice? |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paradigm that is prominent in political discussions about teaching languages in the Czech Republic today, is the communicative paradigm. It is apparent in Czech curricular documents as well as in European ‘recommendations’. The aim of the presented research project was to investigate the ‘communicativeness’ of the discourse of teaching English on primary and lower-secondary level in the Czech Republic. We worked with data collected in 2006 and 2011 within the CPV Videos Study of English as a second language project. Video data of every-day teaching allow us to analyse the realised form of curriculum. The focus of the presented analysis is the relationship between mother and target language in foreign language teaching, which we see as one of the key indicators of the ‘communicativeness’ of instruction. The results indicate that contrary to proclamations stated in political documents the communicative approach is not prominent in the praxis at basic schools. |
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