CJp307 Didactics of Czech Language and Literature for Secondary Schools

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Radim Ošmera, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jitka Zítková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Kroča, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The language component of the course is focused on the recognition and acquisition of methodical procedures and forms of work with language material in the conditions of learning the mother tongue during the secondary education. The literary component of the course introduces selected methodical procedures of working with a literary text at the secondary school. Also, it focuses on teaching materials – coursebooks and reading-book anthologies. The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the forms of didactic transformation of the language and stylistic curriculum at secondary schools, utilizing teaching materials and working with a full variety of the curricular content of the literary component of the secondary school education.
Learning outcomes
Students will become familiar with the contents of the language and composition curriculum at secondary schools and they will be able to prepare for a teaching unit, apply their gained knowledge in regards to effective exposition of the new learning material, motivation and evaluation of the teaching process. Students will become familiar with a variety of literature teaching materials for secondary schools. They will be able to adapt the teaching materials to specific educational intents. Hey will be able to apply appropriate methodical approaches while working with imaginative literature as well as with the literary body of knowledge in order to teach literature at secondary schools.
Syllabus
  • Czech language: 1. The educational content of teaching language and composition at secondary schools. 2. Methods and forms of teaching language and composition, the organization of the lesson. 3. Types of language and composition-teaching lessons. 4. Preparing a language or composition-teaching lesson. 5. Motivation, feedback. 6. Additional materials: texts for practicing style, texts for the elicitation of curriculum, didactic games. 7. Topics of essays and correcting shortcomings of the students’ speech and writing. 8. Comparison of different types of coursebooks, discussions regarding their concepts. Literary education: 1. The interpretation of a text and basic questions of its practical application. 2. Familiarization with the variety of current coursebooks for secondary schools. 3. The adaptation of teaching materials for a specific concept and an educational strategy of the course. 4. Didactic interpretation in regards to traditional and alternative teaching methods, preparations and guidance of a literary communicative process in the terms of secondary schools. 5. Personal creativity as a way to understanding literature
Literature
    required literature
  • NEZKUSIL, Vladimír. Nástin didaktiky literární výchovy : (čtyřletá gymnázia a vyšší třídy víceletých gymnázií) : z praxe pro praxi. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2004, 165 s. ISBN 8072901605. info
  • HAMAN, Aleš. Úvod do studia literatury a interpretace díla. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H&H, 1999, 179 s. ISBN 8086022579. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie and Vlastimil STYBLÍK. Čeština a její vyučování :didaktika českého jazyka pro učitele základních a středních škol a studenty učitelství. 2., upr. vyd., v SPN vyd. 1. Praha: SPN - pedagogické nakladatelství, 1998, 264 s. ISBN 80-85937-47-6. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie. Komunikační a slohová výchova. Vyd. 1. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 1998, 226 s. ISBN 80-85866-32-3. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Interpretace básní. Vyd. 2., přeprac. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 186 s. ISBN 8021016949. info
    not specified
  • VALA, Jaroslav. Poezie, studenti a učitelé. Olomouc: UP v Olomouci, 2013.
  • ZÍTKOVÁ, Jitka. Teorie výuky literatury v historické perspektivě (Theory of teaching literature in the historical perspective). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 313 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9629-5. info
  • HNÍK, Ondřej. Didaktika literatury: výzvy oboru : od textů umělecké povahy k didaktice estetickovýchovného oboru. Vydání první. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 179 stran. ISBN 9788024626260. URL info
  • GRECMANOVÁ, Helena and Eva URBANOVSKÁ. Aktivizační metody ve výuce, prostředek ŠVP. Vydání první. Olomouc: Hanex, 2007, 178 stran. ISBN 9788085783735. info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Slohové vyučování (Composition teaching). In Slohové vyučování. Brno: PdF Masarykovy univerzity, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1006-1. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Tvořivý sloh : malé traktáty a malé scénáře. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 102 s. ISBN 8071870374. info
Teaching methods
Taught as: seminars Methods: active work of students with teaching materials and modification of the materials, solving model teaching scenarios, discussion regarding professional issues of the field
Assessment methods
Course completion: exam Requirements for completing the course: Creating a complete teaching block presenting linguistic and literary curriculum of a chosen grade of elementary school.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: individuální konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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