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On acquisition strategies in Czech textbooks for foreigners

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2023

Abstract

The quality of teaching materials has a significant role in the process of acquisition a foreign language. It can serve to facilitate, strengthen, and accelerate the process.

The basic problems in the presentation of Czech grammar include formalism, i.e., a strong focus on grammatical forms, but not on their meanings and functions in communication. We also consider the unbalanced attention to morphology (which predominates) and syntax (which lags behind) to be unsatisfactory.

The dominance of deduction, prescription and semasiology are notable in the textbooks. We consider improving the instruction about the speech dimension and increasing focus on onomasiology as crucial.