Bc. Michaela Hradilová

Master's thesis

Contrastive Rhetoric for Teaching Purposes in the Czech Republic

Contrastive Rhetoric for Teaching Purposes in the Czech Republic
Abstract:
Tato práce pojednává o nepříliš známé teorii, která se zabývá výukou psaní v anglickém jazyce - teorii Contrastive Rhetoric. Tento pojem se poprvé objevil v šedesátých letech v USA a za jeho rozšířením stál lingvista Robert Kaplan. Tato teorie tvrdí, že pro studenty angličtiny není dostatečné naučit se gramatiku a syntaktická pravidla jazyka, ale je také třeba pochopit logiku anglického stylu psaní …more
Abstract:
This paper investigates a not very well known theory about teaching writing in English – the Contrastive Rhetoric theory. This theory emerged in the 60s in the USA and it was a linguist, Robert Kaplan, who was the forefather of its beginnings. The theory says that for students of English it is not enough to learn the grammar and syntactic rules of the L2 but they need to grasp the logic of the English …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 5. 2014

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 10. 6. 2014
  • Supervisor: M.A. James Edward Thomas
  • Reader: B.A. Nicola Catherine Fořtová, M.A.

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Teacher Training for Secondary Schools / Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature

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