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This thesis deals with the communication between primary school representatives, foreign students and their parents. Our primary focus is the use of professional community interpreting and child language brokering for this purpose. In the theoretical part of our paper we firstly describe migration in the Czech Republic and then introduce the two main points of interest: community interpreting and child language brokering with a focus on the school setting. The empirical part of this study presents the results of our research, that was conveyed as a case study. Our aim was to analyze how certain primary schools in Prague communicate with students and parents who do not speak Czech; to what extent they use community interpreters and what is their opinion on the role of interpreter at school and on this service in general. We also asked the schools whether and how often they request the foreign students to act as interpreters and to what extent they feel this solution is acceptable in various situations. In order to obtain a comprehensive view, we conveyed a similar survey among community interpreters. We discovered that community interpreting is not a common solution in overcoming language barriers in the selected schools. Even though they perceive this service in a positive way, they struggle with...

The main aim of this bachelor{\crq}s thesis is the overview of fundamental theories of achievement motivation and the presentation of the chief methods of its measurement. From the classical theories there is particularly remarked the work of McClelland, Atkinson and Heckhausen. There is also presented the theory of causal attribution as a searching for causations, which are used by individual to explanate its succes or failure. Next, there is explained the main problems of volitional action, e.g. the work of Heckhausen (Rubicon model), Beckmann and Kuhl are mentioned. The attention is paid to the application af achievement theory in the school setting and the problems of goals (e.g. Ames, Dweck, Nicholls), the PSI theory is remarked, too. In the bachelor{\crq}s thesis there is described a connection of achievement motivation to the selected problems (arousal, aspiration, flow, learned helplessness etc.), the diagnostics of the achievement motivation and the summary of achievement motivation across the time.