CJc316 Using of Corpora in Praxis

Faculty of Education
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jana Marie Tušková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, 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
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJc316/OS01: Fri 1. 3. 15:00–17:50 učebna 72, Fri 26. 4. 8:00–10:50 učebna 72, Fri 17. 5. 8:00–10:50 učebna 72, I. Kolářová
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 aim of the course is to apply the students’ skills gained during their work with the Czech National Corpus to their teaching practice – in teaching the Czech language;
Stress is laid on the skill to form queries in the CNC that would be useful in lessons of orthography, morphology, lexicology and word-formation or syntax.
Students learn to use the other application: Morfio, Word at a Glance, Sketch Engine.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, a student should be able to:
1. explain the structure of the CNC and its importance in teaching the Czech language;
2. use particular corpora of the CNC practically to look up language phenomena;
3. use particular corpora of the CNC practically to teach some language levels of the Czech language;
4. design a set of exercises based on working with various corpora of the CNC.
5. use Intercorp;
6. use Word at a Glance in teaching the Czech Language.
Syllabus
  • 1. Possibilities of use of the CNC corpora in teaching the Czech language.
  • 2. Observation of corpus data and their comparison with handbooks of orthography and grammar of current Czech language.
  • 3. Teaching about variant forms, mainly from the fields of orthography and morphology.
  • 4. Teaching about Phraseology in Czech National Corpus.
  • 5. Typology of exercises, creating of exercises and other activities for teaching the Czech language.
  • 6. Using of the Morfio when searching morphological and word-forming variants.
  • 7. Word at a Glance.
  • 8. Sketch Engine. Making own textual corpus.
Literature
  • Pravidla českého pravopisu. Praha: Academia, 2005. 391 s. ISBN 80-200-1327-X.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára. Česká morfologie a korpusy (Czech morphology and corpora). Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 236 pp. ISBN 978-80-246-2562-1. URL info
  • ČERMÁK, František. Základní slovník českých přísloví : výklad a užití. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2013, 135 s. ISBN 9788074222580. info
  • Jak využívat Český národní korpus. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. Vydání první. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2005, 181 stran. ISBN 8071067369. info
  • Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost : s Dodatkem Ministerstva školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky. Edited by Josef Filipec. Vyd. 4. Praha: Academia, 2005, 647 s. ISBN 8020014462. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Miroslav Grepl - Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 2., opr. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1996, 799 s. ISBN 8071061344. info
Teaching methods
A seminar - problem method, controlled discussion on the professional issues of the course.
Working with Czech National Corpus.
Analysis of founded language phenomena.
Presentation.
Assessment methods
The subject is ended by a credit. To get a credit each student has to elaborate a written seminar work. Detailed requirements are available in each term in Study Materials of the course in the Information System MU, the folder Learning Materials.
In the semester "spring 2024" the student shall to create a work with 4 tasks focusing on the extracting language phenomena from Czech National Corpus: orthography (1 task), morphology (1 task), word forming (1 task) and phraseology, lexicology or syntax (1 task). The student shall create the task that can be used in the Czech language teaching at the secondary school. The student has to present the results of that work on the last seminary.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 9 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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