The thesis titled Didactic materials for the development of linguistic skills in the kindergarten is divided into the theoretical and empirical part.
The theoretical part of the thesis firstly presents the field of language in public kindergartens and materials, used by preschool teachers in the discussed field. It describes desired goals of the preschool teachers, linguistic fields, didactic materials for the linguistic field in the kindergarten and the role of the preschool teacher. The second part of the theoretical part presents language in the pedagogical concept montessori. Described are also basics of the pedagogical concept, periods of growth, principles of education, learning phases and montessori materials with the presentation technique and described montessori environment. Presented are also some linguistic montessori materials, fields of activities and the role of the preschool teacher. Since public kindergartens and montessori kindergartens are very different, the end of the theoretical part provides a brief comparison of both educational concepts for the use of didactical materials in the linguistic field.
The empirical part presents results of the anonymous survey among preschool teachers of the public kindergarten Ciciban – Šmartno pri Litiji and random preschool teachers, who were provided with the survey over the internet.
The results show the share of preschool teachers of a public kindergarten that use linguistic didactic materials, which didactic materials the use in linguistic field in the kindergarten, whether they have another linguistic corner besides the book corner, the share of preschool teachers in the public kindergarten, who are familiar with montessori materials, whether they use the stated montessori materials for the linguistic field in planning the lingual education in the kindergarten and for which linguistic topics.
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