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VI. Bibliography 
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VII. Appendixes 
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I. Introduction
The thesis is based on my own eight-month course with a group of young 
learners at an elementary school in the town of Svitavy. All ten pupils attending the 
course were nine or ten years old and were third graders at that time. They had already 
had month experience, with their previous teacher of English, in learning English 
language before attending my course. One of the course aims was to incorporate 
developing English pronunciation into the whole process of teaching and learning a 
language. This topic was used as a base for the research work. 
For the purpose of both the research and the thesis the learners´ previous teacher 
will be further referred as ´teacher A´. Neither the pupils´ names nor the name of the 
school will be mentioned. The author of the thesis will be referred as ´teacher B´. If 
there are examples given, simple quotation marks will be used. Double quotation marks 
will be used to refer to other people’s ideas. Round brackets ´( )´ are used to provide 
explanations that are more detailed or to list terms. Square brackets ´
[ ]´
are used to 
explain other people’s word or phrase in quotations. Numerals from one to ten are 
written in words, from eleven they are written in numbers. Abbreviations are not used 
with two exceptions (No., PC). 
The first chapter in the theoretical part of the thesis deals with the topic of young 
learners and their development in respect to the process of language learning. The 
second chapter provides a review list of basic terminology concerning English 
pronunciation from the points of segmental and supra-segmental level. The third chapter 
discusses the role of pronunciation from the viewpoint of teaching and learning a 
language. The last chapter in the theoretical part of the thesis provides a list of 
evaluation criteria needed for the obtained research data analysis. 
The question, on which the whole research work was based, was ´Did the used 
activities meet the stated evaluation criteria?´ The whole process of research is 
described in the practical part of the thesis. Chapter No.5 describes the conditions of the 
course and the research. Chapter No.6 is called ´Research Results Reported and 
Commented´. This chapter discusses the collected data in comparison to the stated 
evaluation criteria. The last chapter called ´Conclusion´ summarizes all the results 
gained both during the research work.

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II. The Theoretical Part