Dictionary of Modern Lithuanian (Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas, 1993) defines the eloquence as a skill or power of using a persuasive, powerful discourse, rhetoric. Rhetoric is a flexible science, adjusting itself to the character of relevant ideas and wording of certain epoch. Rhetoric, as theory and practice of eloquence, has been relevant at all times. Goal of Master Thesis is to analyse the possibilities of eloquence education for pupils of 8-10 grades in lessons of technology. We were focused on the attempt to analyse the literature on given topic in pedagogical, psychological and philosophical aspects; later, with the aids of anonymous questionnaire, we tried to identify the opinion of pupils about a level of their own eloquence; we also wanted to summarize the viewpoints of pupils and teachers to the education of eloquence, and to discuss the possibilities of eloquence education in lessons of technology. In the literature part of work, the definition of eloquence education is analysed, links with other sciences are envisaged, education of language skills at school, problems of education of language skills and other aspects are reviewed. After analyzing the literature on the specified topic it became evident that different aspects of eloquence education for pupils are widely approached and described in different Lithuanian educational documents and scientific works. Nevertheless, as scientists maintain, eloquence education is insufficient. Based on the developed... [to full text]

The main problem that was solving in this Master‘s thesis – by comparing language skill development of 5-6 years old children from bilingual and monolingual families to see bilingual and monolingual children of that age possibilities and theirs future growing situaton. The study was done at pre-secondary schools of Vilnius and Švenčionys. 100 children from monolingual families and 100 children from bilingual were researched in this Master‘s work. The bilingual families had Lithuanaian and Russian or Polish as a spoken language. This Master‘s thesis conclusion – 5-6 age children from bilingual families have more trained lingual ear, verbal memory and articulation apparatus than those from monolingual families. It was approved statistically true �� p<0,01 by bigger percent of bilingual children results. For example, researching lingual ear – almost 2/3 bilingual children got best award and only 32 percent monolingual the same. The list of literature and appendixes are placed at the end of master’s degree work. 16 pictures, 6 tables illustrate the work, total 57 pages.