Research on the cognitive style field dependence-independence establishes its influence on learning and students' outcomes across academic disciplines and at all levels of schooling. Field dependent learners generally perform less well than field independent individuals in most instructional environments. The consequences of cognitive style differences have not been thoroughly pursued by geography educators, and field dependent learners are generally disadvantaged. Review of literature suggests that field dependent learners may perform well in hypermedia-based environments configured to support their learning needs. This study presented geography students with a computer program that contained jigsaw puzzles made from maps and randomly varied the type of interactivity available to learners when solving the puzzles. Field dependent learners were expected to solve the puzzles more quickly and accurately when they were able to interact with the jigsaw puzzle. The interactive treatments provided by the program did not improve the performance of field dependent individuals as expected. / Ph. D.

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The present diploma thesis focuses on the relation of the bilingualism and the cognitive style of field dependence/independence. Its first theoretical chapter deals with the issue of cognitive styles, in particular field dependence/independence, its history, possibilities of testing, namely the Embedded Figures Test and its group and online modifications. The second chapter of the theoretical part provides a characteristics and description of the phenomenon of bilingualism, its classification and a review of selected studies of bilingualism in relation to cognitive abilities and with the concept of field (in)dependence. During the former researches, higher tendency to the field-independence in youth non-adult bilinguals was proved. The purpose of the empirical part of this thesis aims to find, using the Online Group Embedded Figures Test, if the bilinguals still differ in this higher tendency from monolinguals in the adulthood. Based on the sample of 30 adult individual natural bilinguals, whose results in the Online GEFT test were compared to the results of 30 adult monolinguals in the same test, a statistically significant difference was not proved. From this result we can claim, that in adulthood, the difference of the field-independence between bilingual and monolingual population tends to...