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Course: Language Development

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Course title Language Development
Course code KČJ/VJBZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Spěváčková Martina, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Pasáčková Eva, PhDr. CSc.
Course content
Lectures: 1. Diachronic approach to language research. The periods of the Czech language development. The Proto-Slavic origin of Czech, the tendencies in development of Proto-Slavic. 2. Basic development processes in Proto-Slavic. Slavic languages. 3. Old Church Slavonic, its language system. The relation of Old Church Slavonic to Czech and to the Czech culture. 4. The period of old Czech - the 14th century. 5. The period of old Czech - the 15th century. 6. Humanistic Czech - the development of all structural levels, especially lexicon and syntax. Relations to Latin. 7. Baroque Czech - the development of all structural levels, especially lexicon. Relations of its development to modern Czech. 8. Formation of modern literary Czech in the national revival period. 9. The development of language norm in the 19th century. Key figures of Czech linguistics. 10. The development of language norm at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. The language attitudes in the journal Naše řeč. 11. The Prague Linguistic Circle - structuralism. Attitudes to the literary language codification. 12. The literary language development after WW2. 13. Language stratification. The development of dialects, interdialect, common Czech, literary Czech. Seminar: 1. Introduction - basic methods of language development research. Sources of ancient language material, sources of reference, orthographical systems. 2. Language analysis focused on the processes of language development in Proto-Slavic. 3. Reading and interpreting an Old Church Slavonic text. 4. Language analysis focused on the processes of language development in the old Czech period (Dalimil´s Chronicle). 5. Language analysis focused on the processes of language development in the old Czech period (old Czech prose). 6. Analysis of the language of J. A. Komenský, especially from the syntactic point of view. 7. Reading humanistic works. 8. Reading and analysing Baroque prints. Orthographic principles. 9. Analysing the language attitudes of the national revival grammar books. 10. Analysis of the word formation system in the national revival period - the language means in Jungmann´s dictionary. 11. Analysis of the Czech language from the second half of the 19th century. 12. Analysing the views of the Prague Linguistic Circle members. 13. Assessment - tests.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Task-based study method, Seminar classes, Lecture, Seminar
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 40 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
vysvětlit kritéria klasifikace českých hlásek
vysvětlit stavbu tvaru slova
vysvětlit slovotvorné způsoby a postupy v současné češtině
vysvětlit morfologické významy jmen a sloves v současné češtině
vysvětlit deklinační a konjugační systém současné češtiny
klasifikovat indoevropské a slovanské jazyky
Skills
interpretovat komunikát současné češtiny v rovině hláskoslovné, lexikální a morfologické
provést všestranný jazykový rozbor komunikátu současné češtiny
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
characterize the language situation development in the Czech area from beginning to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
explain the development changes of the Czech language functions depending on historical development of Czech society
enumerate and describe the most important sources of knowledge of each developmental period
explain the main processes of the phonological and morphological subsystem of Czech
Skills
read comprehensively a selected transliterated text from any period of historical development of Czech
characterize language means used in a text with respect to their function and to the Czech language development in given period
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Task-based study method
Seminar classes
Interactive lecture
Lecture with visual aids
Skills
Task-based study method
Skills demonstration
Seminar classes
Individual study
Competences
Individual study
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Oral exam
Continuous assessment
formativní hodnocení: průběžné testy
Seminar work
Skills
Oral exam
Skills demonstration during practicum
Seminar work
Test
formativní hodnocení: průběžné testy
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • http://vokabular.ujc.cas.cz.
  • Alena M. Černá. Čeština Daniela Adama z Veleslavína. Praha, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7470-409-3.
  • Cuřín, František. Vývoj spisovné češtiny : Vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. filozof. a pedagog. fakult. 1. vyd. Praha : SPN, 1985.
  • Dittmann, Robert. Čeština a dějiny. 1. vyd. Olomouc : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2013. ISBN 978-80-244-3549-7.
  • Havránek, Bohuslav. Vývoj českého spisovného jazyka. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980.
  • Komárek, Miroslav; Bláha, Ondřej. Dějiny českého jazyka. Vyd. 1. Brno : Host, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7294-591-7.
  • Kosek, Pavel. Historická mluvnice češtiny - překlenovací seminář. Brno, 2014. ISBN 978-80210-6975-6.
  • Lamprecht, Arnošt; Bauer, Jaroslav; Šlosar, Dušan. Historická mluvnice češtiny : Vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. filozof. fakult. 1. vyd. Praha : SPN, 1986.
  • Nejedlý, Petr a kol. Slovotvorný vývoj deverbálních substantiv ve staré a střední češtině. Praha, 2019. ISBN 978-80-200-3087-0.
  • Porák, Jaroslav. Cvičebnice staročeského tvarosloví. Praha : Univerzita Karlova, 1980.
  • Šlosar, Dušan; Večerka, Radoslav; Dvořák, Jan; Malčík, Petr. Spisovný jazyk v dějinách české společnosti. Brno, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7294-311-1.
  • Večerka, Radoslav. Slovanské počátky české knižní vzdělanosti. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1963.


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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Visual Culture in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Russian Language in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Music in Education (17) Category: Art and applied art 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language in Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): - (15) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language in Education (15) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physical Education in Education (18) Category: Physical education and sport 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): - (19) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Music in Education (19) Category: Art and applied art 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language in Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Music in Education (16) Category: Art and applied art 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
University of West Bohemia, date of update: 31.08.2024 23:52. Data created for academic year 2024/2025