ORIGINAL_ARTICLEThere are a number of places in the Liberec Region that are very attractive to various forms of tourism. In our survey, we asked tourists who had visited this region what they liked most and what least, how they evaluated the facilities and the services and what they would recommend to their friends. During the evaluation, we realized that one of the most important factors influencing the overall perception of the tourist area was the process of creation of perceived space through its parts – landmarks. This article therefore tries to reflect on two geographic methods: the concept of place and method of mental mapping and on how the perceived space is generated from holiday experiences. Understanding this process may provide more effective forms of promotion of tourist areas in future.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_01.pdf2016-12-3171310.15240/tul/004/2016-3-001Liberec RegionTourismLandmarkMental mapsEmilDrápela1AUTHORTerezaBrožková2AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLENews discourse has been analysed from different angles including the critical approach, stylistic approach, corpus-linguistic approach, cognitive approach, diachronic approach, socio-linguistic approach etc. [1]. Yet, these approaches do not focus on analysing attitude/evaluation as such. That is why this study sets out to explore and compare expressing attitude/evaluation via two lexicogrammatical patterns which were identified by Hunston and Sinclair [2] and amended by Bednarek [3]. The adjective lexicogrammatical patterns ‘it v-link ADJ finite/non-finite clause’ and ‘v-link ADJ prep’ seem to be the most prominent carriers of evaluative language in a corpus of six British English online ‘popular’ and ‘quality’ newspapers. The paper compares not only the frequency of the patterns in the corpus but also the differences in the use of the patterns between the quality and popular newspapers.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_02.pdf2016-12-31142310.15240/tul/004/2016-3-002EvaluationPatternsAdjectiveNewspaperDiscourseCorpusPetraPeldová1AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLESince 2016, the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Liberec (EF TUL) has been the Public Testing Center for internationally recognized exams in German, Wirtschaft auf Deutsch – WiDaF® Basic and WiDaF®. These tests have been ranked among the standardized tests demonstrating pupil / student language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The contribution presents information about the EF TUL students’ test results in the pilot test phase in 2016.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_03.pdf2016-12-31243010.15240/tul/004/2016-3-003Pilot researchClassificationEvaluationUniversity studentsIrenaVlčková1AUTHORHelenaNeumannová2AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLENew times require new skills in new areas. This is the reason why the structure and syllabus are becoming obsolete. Many teams of teachers study new content of teaching materials and new ways of teaching. These efforts are supported by different organizations, beginning with the leadership of schools across the state authorities to the bodies of the European Union. In our study, students’ point of view is examined. The group of respondents consists of both potential and current students, as well as the former ones. The emphasis is laid on finding skills which "ordinary people", according to their opinion, need for their personal and professional life. The aim of the research was to determine the knowledge and skills that should be part of the studies according to these people, and on the other hand, to point out things which they would gladly give up. The survey was conducted among schools at all levels, although the priority was the college level studies. Our expectations were confirmed in many ways. However, many of the requirements were inconsistent with the actual state of education. The knowledge gained in our research could help in creating track objects, their content and the form of teaching.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_04.pdf2016-12-31314310.15240/tul/004/2016-3-004Professional competenceUndergraduate studentsExplorationTests of hypothesisDecision treesMartaŽambochová1AUTHORAnetaKulhanová2AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLEThe contribution opens up the wider context of the issue of the claim of transformation in helping professions, explains the phenomenon of home and its importance in the life of a man in connection with separation claims in the living referent with notification of the possible pitfalls and habitual traps and the implementation of life as rich and original as possible.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_05.pdf2016-12-31455310.15240/tul/004/2016-3-005TransformationFamilyFamily emotional fieldSynchronizationOscillationMovementCrisisOriginal existenceHelenaKalábová1AUTHORMartinKorych2AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLEThis paper examines reading and comprehension skills. Following a theoretical introduction, the paper describes a pilot study among selected Czech university students from non-philological subjects. The study’s aim was to ascertain how the respondents work with academic texts, what strategies they use, and how well they manage to successfully decode such texts. The paper proposes a revision of key CEFR skills to accommodate reading and comprehension of academic texts.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_06.pdf2016-12-31546610.15240/tul/004/2016-3-006Reading competenceTop-down processBottom-up processReading strategiesPilot researchDescriptorsMartinLachout1AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLEThe paper informs about a seminar “German lessons accompanying university studies” in Munich (2 weeks) from an annually innovated programme of further education at the Goethe- Institute for teachers of German in Germany. The paper also demonstrates one of the activation methods on the example of theses for a specialist language preparation at schools of higher education and universities, created by the course participants in their team work and panel discussion.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_07.pdf2016-12-31677010.15240/tul/004/2016-3-007Study-accompanying German lessonsAction-oriented foreign language teachingBlended LearningHolistic learningMiladaOdstrčilová1AUTHOR

ORIGINAL_ARTICLEThe aim of this contribution is to share knowledge and experience of university teachers teaching Language for special purposes, Business Language and Language for Tourism in bachelor studies, using specific teaching methods and evaluating language competences of students according to the demands of the CEFRL. An important issue is the development of new teaching materials using modern information technologies. Language knowledge is a key competence of a university graduate. Subject matters of the studies for future specialists in the travel trade have to comprise topics on the development of tourism, geography of tourism, sustainable tourism, statistical reports, promotion and marketing, sustainable tourism and intercultural communication. Since our accession to the European Union, our country has had to comply with the standards to enable international comparison and to use the same approved unified terminology.https://acc-ern.tul.cz/archiv/PDF/ACC_2016_3_08.pdf2016-12-31717710.15240/tul/004/2016-3-008Foreign language studiesTourismCommon European Framework of Reference for LanguagesHanaRomová1AUTHOR