This study of the motivation to learn English as L2 (as a second/foreign language) provides a local model of L2 motivation which employs a new contextualised perspective. It is based on the socio-cultural backgrounds of the learners and their social relations. This model not only incorporates insights from major debates in the field, but it is also in harmony with recent trends of L2 motivation research. The study had three major objectives. First, it sought to identify the factors that represent Omani students’ motivation to learn English in Oman. Second, it attempted to verify the effects of social relations on motivation. Third, it examined the mechanisms employed by the learners which influence their motivation through personal relations. Since this study views motivation as a complex bundle of constructs, it was more feasible to adopt its most significant factors as determined by the immediate socio-cultural context. Interest and Self-efficacy (SE) were established as the two main constructs representing Omani students’ motivation to learn English as L2. The ‘L2 Motivation Osmosis Model’ was suggested to offer an explanation of the workings of influence on students’ L2 motivation in Oman. This study employed a mixed methodology. A quantitative method was used to confirm the importance of Interest and SE for Omani students. A qualitative study was then designed to further verify this and ascertain the devices employed to influence learners’ motivation. The first question was answered using quantitative and qualitative data. Correlation and Linear Regression statistics were used to verify the importance of Interest and SE. This question was also examined through the students’ depictions of motivated English as L2 learners and the reasons they provided for liking English and why people in Oman learn it. The second question inspected the role of social relations in influencing students’ motivation. The third question studied the devices used by people which influence students’ motivation. The analysis also revealed the importance of the affective dimension expressed through the concept of ‘closeness’, which explains the type and strength of the influence initiated through social relations. This study emphasised the need to consider the socio-cultural context of learners in designing programs and recruiting teachers and the necessity of providing help, encouragement and emotional support. Instead of simply giving recommendations of good practice, the findings of this study provide practitioners with guidelines on how to devise their own plans and guiding principles.

Previous research using future time perspective or possible selves frameworks provided evidence that learners with definite and elaborate goals, and future self-guides are more motivated in school tasks (Reeve, 2009; Yowell, 2000), exert more effort, demonstrate persistence, and show greater performance (De Volder & Lens, 1982; Lens et al., 2002; Simons et al., 2000), and learners with positive possible selves were better able to face failure, demonstrated better performance, had higher levels of self-esteem, showed more persistence on tasks, and depicted greater motivation (Cross & Markus, 1994; Oyserman et al., 2004; Unemori et al., 2004). The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of future orientation constructs, future time perspective and possible selves, on Turkish college level learners' motivation to learn English and their identity construction, and how future projections of themselves as L2 users (the ideal L2 self, the ought-to L2 self, and feared L2 self) impacted their motivation to learn English and their identities. A total of 299 Turkish graduate students studying in the United States participated in the study. Also, this study examined the extent to which adding a measure of the feared L2 self construct contributed to explaining motivation to learn English and identity construction. The data were collected via surveys and interviews, and they were analyzed quantitatively, using qualitative data for triangulation. Findings suggested that the L2 motivational self-system (Dornyei, 2005, 2009) contributed to explaining Turkish learners' motivation to learn English and their oriented identities. Also, adding a feared L2 self variable to measures of the L2 motivational self system could help explain learners' identity construction but not their language learning motivation. In addition, future time perspective connectedness and value were not useful in explaining the L2 motivation, but future connectedness was found to be related to the ideal L2 self and feared L2 self, and valuing the future goals was related to the ought-to L2 self. Qualitative data showed that learners presented combination of several identities, including national and oriented. They imagined themselves as professional and successful English users, and their L2 related worries included losing their native language and being seen as "assimilated" or as "showing off" individuals. / text

Αντικείμενο της παρούσας έρευνας είναι ο τρόπος διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής της ελληνικής γλώσσας στους μαθητές που δεν είναι φυσικοί ομιλητές της. Πιο συγκεκριμένα ερευνάται κατά πόσον στα εκπαιδευτικά υλικά που έχουν παραχθεί από το Κέντρο Διαπολιτισμικής Αγωγής του ΕΚΠΑ και από το Πρόγραμμα Εκπαίδευσης Μουσουλμανοπαίδων του ΕΚΠΑ και αφορούν τη διδασκαλία της γραμματικής σε αλλόγλωσσους ακολουθούνται οι αρχές της διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ξένης γλώσσας, όπως αυτές καθορίζονται από το Αναλυτικό Πρόγραμμα διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής σε αλλοδαπούς μαθητές. Η σύγκριση αφορά το υλικό που αναφέρεται στη διδασκαλία του επιθέτου (ονοματική φράση) και του μέλλοντα (ρηματική φράση). Βασίστηκε σε ποιοτικά κριτήρια βάσει των οποίων ερευνήθηκε το εκπαιδευτικό υλικό. Στα συμπεράσματα της έρευνας ελήφθησαν υπόψη οι διαφορετικές ανάγκες που κατά περίπτωση καλύπτουν τα συγκεκριμένα εκπαιδευτικά υλικά. Η έρευνα εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο του γενικότερου προβληματισμού σχετικά με την παραγωγή κατάλληλου εκπαιδευτικού υλικού για τη διδασκαλία της ελληνικής γλώσσας στους αλλόγλωσσους μαθητές που φοιτούν όχι μόνο στα μειονοτικά αλλά και στα υπόλοιπα ελληνικά σχολεία. Ανάλογο εκπαιδευτικό υλικό χρειάζεται να χρησιμοποιείται από τους συναδέλφους όλων των σχολείων με τη μορφή εναλλακτικού ή παράλληλου υλικού, στο πλαίσιο της ενισχυτικής διδασκαλίας ή και της κανονικής σχολικής τάξης για την ενίσχυση της γλωσσομάθειας των αλλοδαπών μαθητών στη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση. / -

TITLE: Reasons for choosing French as a second foreign language AUTHOR: Bc. Jana Šindelářová DEPARTMENT: Department of Education SUPERVISOR: PhDr. RNDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to find out why Czech secondary school students chose to study French as their second foreign language and how satisfied they are with this decision. The theoretical part concerns itself with teaching languages in European schools and in the Czech Republic with the focus on French language. Furthermore, it deals with the status of French language both in the world and in the Czech Republic, and with the benefits the knowledge of French language brings. The empirical part of this thesis depicts a research conducted by means of questionnaire construction. The sample was 100 students from the lower and 163 students from the higher stage of secondary schools called "gymnasium" (grammar school) in Prague. (185 girls and 78 boys) The research shows that students chose the foreign language mainly themselves and the most frequent reason for choosing French was that they liked the language in general. The second reason was that they liked the accent and number three that they did not want to study the other language taught in their school. Furthermore, they chose French language in order to widen their...

Title: Error in the point of view of the French as a second foreign language in the lower secondary school context Author: Mgr. Tomáš Klinka Department: Department of Pedagogy Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. Marie Fenclová, CSc. Abstract: This thesis focuses on the subject of error in the context of Czech lower secondary school and second foreign language (L3) instruction. This work has three purposes: first, to complete the basic literature in this domain using the publications issued from the French speaking world of educational research that are not quoted in the Czech academic field. Second, to analyze how the elements that intervene in the pedagogical process treat the question of error, and third, using the conclusions obtained, to make explicit the problems which pose the present treatment of the question of error and to indicate the direction of a future research in this domain. So as to attain the first goal, we propose and comment the work of some French specialists in the field of educational science and their conclusions, mainly the typology of errors created by Astolfi. As for the second goal, our thesis provides an analysis of the official regulations concerning teaching and learning in the Czech Republic, exposes the mental representations of error with which both students and teachers...

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在這日益競爭的國際化時代，臺灣能否與國際接軌，甚至搶先在國際上佔有一席重要之地即顯得非常重要，而第二外語教育絕對是其重要關鍵之一，關係著國家在世界舞臺上的競爭力。 然而我國高中第二外語教育落實緩慢，遲至1994年才有第二外語課程開設，且高中第二外語教育在現今仍有諸多問題點。鄰近國家之中，韓國第二外語教育發展悠久，也重視第二外語人才培育，因此本研究希望藉由臺韓高中第二外語教育之比較，找出可借鏡韓國之處，給予臺灣高中第二外語教育發展建議，進而提升國家競爭力。 為了達到研究目的，本研究方法採用文件分析法與G.Z.F. Bereday的比較研究法，進行臺灣與韓國高中第二外語教育之比較研究。內文主要探究兩國高中第二外語教育之發展歷程、高中第二外語課程、高中第二外語師資與培育、第二外語於大學入學之採計等四大面向。 研究結果發現過去韓國高中第二外語因長期列為必選修而深植在高中教育，目前第二外語雖與臺灣同樣列為選修科目，但韓國的選修比例仍遠高於臺灣。此外，韓國第二外語科目分化且專精，另有外語高中與國際高中專門培育外語人才，並有教育部主導的線上學習課程，整體第二外語教育規劃比臺灣完善。在師資方面，韓國第二外語師資培育機構遠多於臺灣，第二外語普遍由合格師資教學，也有特色聘用制度解決師資問題，師資狀況較臺灣理想，且韓國的教師在職進修體系也較臺灣完整，第二外語教師進修方式多元，皆值得臺灣參考學習。另外，韓國第二外語為大學考科之一，第二外語的重要性及與大學入學選才的連結程度均較臺灣高。 根據研究結果，本研究針對臺灣高中第二外語教育發展提出以下建議：（一）課綱編制應具有系統性。（二）增設外語高中與國際高中。（三）增加第二外語特色開課方式。（四）開發高中第二外語線上課程。（五）發展高中第二外語課程教材。（六）短期輔導第二外語在職教師取得教師證，長期應增設大學第二外語科系及師資培育機構。（七）加強第二外語教師在職教育。（八）實施巡迴教師制度。（九）短期提高大學採計第二外語的意願，長期應將第二外語納入大學入學考試選擇考科。 / In this era of increased internationalization, it is impossible for Taiwan to keep itself from the international situation. Therefore, it is of great importance to keep up with the international practice and even preemptively occupy an important place in the world. The second foreign language education is absolutely one of the most crucial keys to the country's competitiveness on the world stage. However, the implementation of the second foreign language education in Taiwan’s high schools is slow. The second foreign language course in high schools was not opened until 1994, but it still has many problems nowadays. Among neighboring countries, second foreign language education in South Korea has a long history, and the country also values the importance of cultivating second foreign language talents. Thus, this study hopes to compare the second foreign language education in senior high schools between the two countries, and to find out what Taiwan can learn from the experience of South Korea. Lastly, it is hoped that the paper could shed some light on the development of second foreign language education in Taiwan's high schools so as to enhance the national competitiveness. This study adopted document analysis and G. Z. F. Bereday's comparative method in education to conduct a comparative study of the second foreign language education in Taiwan and South Korea. The paper mainly explores four major aspects — the development of the second foreign language education in high school, the second foreign language curriculum in high school, the second language teachers in high school and teacher education, and the requirement of the second foreign language for university admission. It was found that the second foreign language in South Korea was deeply rooted in high school education by being a required subject in the long-term. Even though the second foreign language in South Korea is currently listed as an elective as in Taiwan, the elective ratio in South Korea is relatively higher than Taiwan. Furthermore, the second foreign language subjects in South Korea are diverse and specialized. It also has foreign language and international high schools to cultivate foreign language talents, together with online learning courses led by the Ministry of Education. On the whole, educational planning of the second foreign language programs in South Korea is more complete than that of in Taiwan. In terms of teachers, there are relatively more teachers training institutions in South Korea than in Taiwan. The second foreign language is generally taught by qualified teachers and also has a special employment system to solve the problem of employment of teachers. As a result, teachers' status is better than Taiwan. Moreover, on-the-job training system of teachers in South Korea is also more complete than that of Taiwan, and the second foreign language teacher has a variety of training methods; all of which are worth learning. In addition, the second foreign language in South Korea is one of the subjects tested in college entrance exams, making the importance of the second foreign language and the degree of connection with university entrance candidates both higher than Taiwan. According to the research results, this study proposed the following suggestions for the development of second foreign language education in high school in Taiwan: (1) The syllabus should compile more systematically. (2) To increase the establishment of foreign language high school and international high school. (3) To increase the second foreign language special start mode. (4) To develop high school online second foreign language courses. (5) To develop high school second foreign language teaching materials. (6) In the short-term, counseling second foreign language in-service teachers to obtain teacher's certificate. In the long term, the university should increase the second foreign language department and teacher training institutions. (7) To strengthen the second foreign language teacher in-service education. (8) To implement floating teacher system. (9) In the short-term, to improve college recognize second foreign language certification. In the long-term, the second foreign language should be included in the college entrance exams as an alternative.

This thesis deals with the implementation of the European language policy in the Czech Republic, specifically in the area of basic education. In the first part are defined basic concepts, especially language policy, language planning and language management. Furthermore, the work described principles of European language policy and the concept of bi/ multilingualism. The second part is devoted to a specific form of European language policy in the Czech Republic, especially in the area of basic education. The fundamental legal and curricular documents on this topic are described. Qualitative research aims to explore the decision making processes of heads of schools in teaching foreign languages. The work examines what has influence on these decisions and how they are formed. Keywords: Language policy, language management, language planning, education of foreign languages, second foreign language, educational plans, Czech Republic