The study focuses on the development of literacy skills among primary school pupils using an educational trail. The aim of the research was to link the methodology of creating educational trails with the current didactic practices applied in teaching Czech language and literature a...

Significant attention has been devoted to the forced switch to distance learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, some aspects of this issue that are very important for practice are still understudied. The aim of this study is to describe the development of ...

The article addresses various types of negatives in contemporary Czech. Speakers have many options to express semantic nuances. Advanced foreign students of Czech shall learn which variant prevails in different communication situations and what is its communication effect.

The Czech Language Olympics started in 1972 and we look back at its history since then to the present days. We track continuous decline in the quality of the care of the talented students of Czech. The decline concerns the contents of the Czech Language Olympics and&...

This study deals with the didactization of Olbracht's psychological novel in literature textbooks for the 3rd year of secondary schools. The study also presents a scientific and didactic interpretation of the author's debut novel Žalář nejtemnější. It thinks about the genre-based cur...

This study attempts to define a psychological novel as a literary curriculum at high school. It proposes didactic means for selected Czech psychological novels, such as questions and tasks with which it would be possible to fulfil this genre-based curriculum in all its components&#...

The article describes the course of block pedagogical practice of students realized during the distance learning in the academic year 2020/2021. The practice was thematically focused on the issue of increasing digital literacy and computer thinking. In connection with the revision of&#x...

A man does not live outside of this world. He lives in a particular region. This is what teaching at all school levels should take into account and constantly build the relation of students to the regions. It can be done through various linguistic disciplines and top...

Semasiology traditionally plays key role in grammar descriptions. Its monopoly is given by the fact that the meaning (function) of grammar categories and phenomena is (in general) clear to native speakers. The Czechs find it usually hard to learn codified forms of standard Czech.&#...

Distinguishing and classifying dependent clauses at schools is connected with certain problems the author points out: distinguishng the types of dependent clauses, being aware of different meanings of individual words or phrases in a text, etc. Our analysis has all types of dependent&#x...

The first book of Kosma’s Chronicle of Bohemia shows a significant anomaly. Kosmas violated the continuous chronological composition of the first book and, describing the beginnings of the Christianization of Bohemia in the second half of the 9th century, inserted an extensive episode&#...

Since spring 2020, the ongoing covid-19 pandemic has significantly influenced education worldwide due to forced school closures and the necessity to switch to distance learning. The aim of...

We present our view of employing exact methods in Czech studies and methodology of teaching Czech taking also account the development of these methods. Exactness is documented in using these research methods either on their own or in mulitidisciplinary perspective, in using their f...

Adverbial phrases are an intermediate category between grammar and vocabulary; they are phraseological. They are a collocation formed by a synsemantic word (a preposition) and a semantic word. Such collocation has usually a new meaning, which very often fully differs from the original&#...

The number "five" plays an important role in Czech. This is caused by the perception of the world by human brain. It can perceive particular elements as unconnected, individual, up to the amount of four, inclusive. Starting with the number five, the brain stops to&#x...

This paper is conceived as an overview of the recommendations issued by the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in the initial days of the state of emergency in order to support the methodological quality of the implementation of emergency distance education. In cooperation w...

During its 70 years of existence, the journal has been focusing on key topics concerning teaching Czech. Nowadays communication education is becoming more central as well as interpreting literary texts. Some topics keep coming back in certain periods as the problems they represent ...

Determining quantitative ratios in speech plays an essential role in expanding students‘ vocabulary and knowledge of their forms, therefore they should be respected in the educational process. It is also important to determine the productivity of types of language phenomena and the degr...

The Czech language is socially stratified and regionally differentiated, although there are also processes of the opposite character going on in it, like unification and equali-zation. Language development includes in itself antinomies opposing each other, but which are mutually complementary and...

The paper presents outdated but still quite widely known and applied solutions of language problems. These solutions are applied in accordance with outdated reference in some handbooks or texbooks. Judging by solutions of language tasks in the final of Czech Language Olympics, these...