Státní závěrečná zkouška v pětiletém učitelském studiu:
1. Lingvistika – zkoušení podle teoretických okruhů pokrývajících lingvistické disciplíny vyučované
v průběhu celého studia. Součástí zkoušení je rozbor textů, v jehož průběhu si examinátor může ověřit
kandidátovy znalosti všech lingvistických oborů.
2. Zkoušení znalostí z odborných seminářů na základě předem stanovených okruhů. Student uvede názvy
absolvovaných seminářů na přihlášku k SZZ. Z předloženého seznamu předmětů vybere státnicová
komise jeden, ze kterého bude uchazeči zadána otázka a bude z něj po přípravě zkoušen.
3. Literatura - zkoušení podle předem stanovených okruhů a také na základě četby (50 titulů britských a 50
titulů amerických autorů).
4. Didaktika angličtiny se zkouší podle předem stanovených okruhů.
Student předloží seznam prostudované odborné literatury s tituly rozdělenými podle jednotlivých disciplín.
Tento návrh je platný od dubna 2004. Předem stanovené okruhy ke zkoušení jednotlivých disciplín budou
vyvěšeny na příslušné nástěnce.
Final state exam topics – LINGUISTICS
Phonetics and phonology
1) Physiology of human speech. Description of the respiratory tract, vocal tract and the articulators above
the larynx.
2) English vocalic repertoire: monophthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs – their characteristics and
classification.
3) English consonantal system. Characteristics and classification.
4) The syllable. Syllabic consonants. Lateral and nasal release.
5) Stress in English. Tendencies in stress placement.
6) Rhythm of English.
7) English intonation. Basic tunes and their meanings. Insight into the four functions of intonation
(attitudinal, accentual, grammatical and discourse function).
Morphology and syntax
1) Types of English nouns.
2) The interplay of grammatical categories of determination and number.
3) Expressing gender and case in English.
4) Classification of English pronouns.
5) Verb functions and classes (primary auxiliaries, formal classes of lexical verbs, semantic classes of
modals).
6) Modality in English.
7) The interplay of time, tense, and aspect.
8) Expressing future in English.
9) Formation and syntactic grouping of adjectives (attributive and predicative adjectives).
10) Formation of adverbs and their semantic categories.
11) Basic syntactic concepts: sentence, clause, phrase. Simple and multiple sentence, complex and
compound. Subordination and coordination. Constitutive and optional clause elements and their
semantic roles. Concord.
12) Simple sentence. Sentence types according to their function and structure. Questions, commands and
exclamations. Negation: clausal and local; multiple.
13) Clause patterns; verb and its complementation. Verbless and nonfinite clauses. Cleft sentences.
14) Complex sentence. The indicators of subordination. The classification of subordinate clauses: nominal,
adverbial, relative, appositive. Inversion. Direct and indirect speech. The sequence of tenses. Back-shift
rules.
15) The syntactic functions of the infinitive, the gerund and the participle.
16) Word order. Deviations from grammatical word order. Word order as a means of functional sentence
perspective. Word order and the passive voice.
Lexicology
1) Lexical meaning: word and lexeme - two fundamental terms. Lexeme, its form and content. Motivation
and arbitrariness, the universality of naming units.
2) The components of meaning: denotation, connotation, collocability. The analysis of meaning:
onomasiology and semasiology. Relation between form and meaning (polysemy, synonymy, hyponymy).
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3) The changes and transfer of meaning: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche. The change of meaning in the
denotation and interpretation.
4) Word-formation processes in English. Tendency towards monosyllabism, univerbization. The formation
of new lexemes: coinages and calques. The combination of words: collocations and idiomatic
expressions.
5) Vocabulary layers: differentiation in origin. Social, stylistic, territorial and time differentiation.
6) Lexicography: the object of study, types of dictionaries, structure of dictionary entry. The British and
American dictionary tradition.
Stylistics and text linguistics
1) Stylistics, text linguistics, discourse analysis – their common and distinctive features, the multidisciplinary
character of their study: relation to other research fields. Who can benefit from the research results?
2) What is TEXT? Standards of textuality.
3) Exploring textual coherence: FSP on the textual level, the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Principle,
Speech Act theory, the theory of knowledge schemata …
4) Stylistic analysis step by step: the concept of register (situation and context; linguistic, paralinguistic and
extralinguistic features).
5) Characterising and comparing functional styles: the style of conversation, scientific style, mass media
style, the style of official and legal documents …
American Literature
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Early American Literature.
Romanticism and New England Renaissance.
Realism and Naturalism in American Literature.
19th Century American Poets.
American Literature between 1900 – 1945; Modernism.
American Literature after World War 2.
American Drama.
Cultural Pluralism in American Literature (ethnic literatures).
Regionalism in American Literature.
American Women Writers.
Conformity and Rebellion in American Literature.
Development of American Short Story.
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British Literature
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Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Prose.
The Period after the Norman Conquest.
The Late Medieval Period: From Chaucer to Caxton.
Humanism and Renaissance in British Literature.
British Literature of the Civil War Period, Protectorate and Restoration.
Neo-Classicism in British Literature.
Pre-Romantic and Romantic Literature in Britain.
Victorian British Literature.
British Literature in the 1st half of the 20th century.
British Literature after World War II.
Topics within English Methodology
1) History and development of methods and approaches in language teaching, theories of language
teaching and learning.
2) Language teaching methods – a critical analysis.
3) Developing linguistic competence.
4) Developing language skills.
5) Content based language teaching.
6) Learner – personal traits, learning styles and strategies, motivation, success in language learning.
7) Teacher, teacher’s roles, teaching styles, self-development.
8) The theory of error.
9) Classroom management, classroom interaction, classroom research.
10) Testing and assessment.
11) Designing, implementing and evaluating language courses.
12) The process of planning and evaluating in foreign language teaching; material development.
13) Mother tongue and the English language teaching.
14) Learners with special needs.
15) Stress Management in Teaching and Learning; Burn-cut syndrome.
At the state exam the candidates are expected to present their portfolio documenting their work in the field of
methodology.
American Counterculture
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The Beat Generation.
American New Left.
The Hippie “Flower Power” movement. Haight-Ashbury. Woodstock.
Civil rights movement and counterculture. Feminism.
American folk and rock scene since the sixties.
American Ethnic Literatures
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What is ethnicity? Cultural pluralism. Multicultural character of American literature.
Native American literature.
African American literature.
Asian American literature.
Hispanic American literature.
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British architecture and arts
1) A brief survey of architectural development in Britain from the Anglo-Saxon period till 1550.
Characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Gothic styles.
2) Characteristic features of Tudor and Elizabethan great houses. From Inigo Jones’ Palladianism to
Sir Christopher Wren.
3) The English Baroque. James Gibbs. 18th century Palladianism and Robert Adam’s Neoclassicism.
4) 19th and 20th century developments: Victorian and Edwardian imitation of historical styles. Modern
architecture in Britain.
5) Medieval manuscript illumination, wall and pannel painting, sculpture.
6) Painting and sculpture from the 16th to the 18th centuries: great foreigners (Holbein, Van Dyck,
etc.); miniature painting (Hilliard, Oliver); the birth of the native genius (Hogarth, Reynold,
Gainsborough, landscape and history painting). Great foreign and native sculptors.
7) 19th century painting and sculpture: Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian narrative painting, great
landscapists (Constable, Turner, watercolour schools); Neoclassical sculptors and the New
Sculpture movement.
8) 20th century painting and sculpture: from the introduction of modernism into Britain in 1910-12 to
the present. Great painters/sculptors and chief modern movements (Spencer, Bacon, Sutherland,
etc.; Epstein, Moore, etc.).
Idiomatology
1) Defining and idiom: dialect, style or phrase?
2) Idiomaticity in a broader sense of the word.
3) Teaching idiomaticity: What does that mean?
Irish writing
Be prepared for a detailed literary-critical discussion on any of the works you have read in the
seminars. (Beckett, Friel, Joyce, Synge, Trevor, Yeats, etc.).
Jewish-American Literature
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The image of traditional shtetl in Jewish American novel.
Jews in the urban ghetto. Jewish Enlightenment in literature.
Jewish American immigrant writers.
Modern American shlemiel. Tradition of antiheroism in Jewish American literature.
The portrayal of Jewish family in American literature.
Methodology of Teaching Culture
1) Teaching “realia” – aims, content, anticipated difficulties.
2) Testing “realia” – reasons and formats.
3) Cultural connotations of words; words and culture.
Pedagogic Grammar
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Concepts of grammar in English course books and reference books, both Czech and international.
Errors and mistakes in the linguistic system.
Grammar and learner-centred approach, teaching grammar to different learner groups.
Stages of the “grammar lesson”.
Testing grammar.
The approaches to grammar in different language teaching methods.
The contrastive analysis of the morphological and syntactic system of English and Czech.
The role of linguistic competence in current FLT.
Restoration Drama
1) Types of Restoration Plays.
2) Actors and Actresses of the Period.
3) Restoration Playhouses.
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4) Theatrical Companies in Restoration London.
5) Prominent Playwrights of the Period.
The Changing Role of Immigration and Migration in American Life
1) The reasons of immigration. Journey to the new continent. Life of immigrants in America.
Naturalization and American restrictive immigration policy.
2) Traditional immigration from European continent.
3) Native Americans – the first migrants. New immigration.
4) African Americans – “immigrants in chains”.
5) Concepts of Americanism and Americanization (“The Melting Pot”, assimilation, acculturation,
cultural pluralism).
The Contemporary British Short Story
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The Plot as an Element of Fiction.
The Character and Techniques of Characterisation.
The Commonly Used Points of View and their Relevance.
Stylistic Devices and their Importance for Story-telling.
The Setting and its Role in the Narrative.
Translations of English Professional Texts
1) Functional styles and translation.
2) Characteristic features of English legal and business documents.
3) Basic aspects of translating professional texts.
Translatology
1) The process of translation: phases with commentary, meaning (denotation, connotation,
pragmatics and semiotics), translator’s competence.
2) The stylistics of translation: register analysis: field, tenor, mode – how do these factors influence
the text and its translation (provide examples).
3) Translating a text: standards of textuality and their implications for translation: textual equivalence.
4) Pragmatics and pragmatic equivalence: what is pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic meaning of
sentences, cooperative maxims, politeness principle and their importance for a translator.
5) Equivalence: functional equivalence and its types – full, partial and zero equivalence; the
possibilities of coping with zero equivalence: professional translators strategies.
6) Interference as a translational problem, negative interference, qualitative and quantitative
mistakes, typical spheres of interference in translations from English into Czech.
7) Mass media style and translation.
8) Scientific texts and their translation.
9) Fiction, drama and translation.
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