The volume of proceedings is a result of the Specific Research project conducted in 2018 with the registration number MUNI/A/0925/2019 - Research on learning and teaching foreign languages. The ...contributions present research studies of those doctoral students in the field of Foreign Language Didactics at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University. The studies are written in Czech.
The aim of the literature review is to map the research field associated with the topic of the frequency use of personal pronouns in written academic discourse of university students. The work ...discusses the main concepts, presents the analyses of 14 empirical studies, and answers two research questions: What are the main findings of the current research? What methods and approaches are preferred in this type of research?
Quality communication between a teacher and a student or students contributes to the process of learning not only a foreign language. Contrarily, fear of communication can significantly harm ...communication. The present study provides information on the process and results of scale adaptation, which measures foreign language anxiety (Horwitz, Horwitz & Cope, 1986). The process of adaptation to Czech conditions included the verification of content validity, construct validity, and the identification of a factor structure of the instrument. Based on the results of the exploratory factor analysis in the STATISTICA 13.3 program, a reduction from thirty-three to thirteen items was proposed. The internal consistency of the adapted Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale showed a sufficient Cronbach‘s alpha coefficient of 0.82.
The aim of the literary review is to map findings from corpus analysis composed of academic texts. Attention is paid to frequency and functional taxonomy of specific multiword expressions. Selected ...empirical studies agree in their claims on the importance of style characterisation while using discourse analysis of authentic texts and point to pedagogical implication of this research in teaching EAP
The paper deals with the process and results of a pilot study of a language learning styles questionnaire (Ehrman & Leaver, 2003) translated into Czech. The questionnaire is based on psychological ...personality typology and it focuses on cognitive dimensions of the language learning process. In order to test the reliability of the translation an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed, as the data on the original questionnaire reliability are not available. Factor analysis did not confirm the reliability of the Czech version scale. However, the original questionnaire setting suggests that it is not constructed of independent factors, thus a factor analysis cannot identify independent dimensions. Considering the piloting results analysis is the EFA does not appear as a relevant method for measuring the reliability of the questionnaire scales. The research will thus use the piloted Czech version of the questionnaire followed by a qualitative research stage.
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