Abstract:

As an introduction of the present case study the standing of German in the Czech Republic is briefly treated. The concrete teaching process of incidental vocabulary learning is described as staged proceeding on the base of the author´s experience as a faculty teacher in detail and supplemented with suitable examples. Then, some common recommendations are added that are supposed to be useful for students and accompanied by an illustrative example of the method treated, applicable at students´ solid level of a foreign language.

The most likely case concerning incidental learning new vocabulary is a text with more unknown items in it. Then it may be recommended to skin over the relevant text before the actual reading. And during the reading proper not to treat each unknown word in detail. A student should try and go into the topic more fully. He should engage with the item which occurs repeatedly, prefer nouns and verbs. Whenever it is possible he should mark the guessed units in the text or put them down on a piece of paper. Give high attention to the form of words guessed. After the reading he should consult his dictionary and find out if his quean of the relevant words´ meanings has been correct. Texts a students is going to read are of course of different difficulty. And he should realize that the learning process of incidental acquisition of new words requires overall solid knowledge of a foreign language. Only a good standard of it is a prerequisite for any successful applying of the method described. It is a condition sine qua non.

Keywords:

Foreign languages, ICT, education, multimedia processing, high school, on-line courses.