This diploma thesis consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. In the theoretical part, we presented the importance of communication in kindergarten and defined in more detail the social types of language and their use in communication between a kindergarten teacher or teacher’s assistant (hereinafter: teacher) and parents. We described forms of cooperation with parents, with a special emphasis on oral communication between teachers and parents. We focused on three forms of cooperation with parents, namely: parent-teacher meetings, daily communication and informal gatherings. We were interested in the relationship between parents and teachers, the teacher's professional communication and his professional development. We also described the communication principles that teachers must be familiar with in order to have a smooth communication with parents.
One of the main goals of the empirical part was to find out which social types of language are used by teachers in communication with parents. We discovered that the use of literary language changes depending on the current circumstances - in parent-teacher meetings the use of formal language is very often, while in informal gatherings the use of non-literary language predominates. Still, regardless of the circumstances, more than half of teachers use literary language when communicating with parents. The results showed that working time and the region of work of teachers do not affect the use of the social type of language, while the workplace does, as teachers use literary language to a greater extent than teachers assistants. We also discovered that teachers place great importance on the use of literary language, as more than half of the respondents believe that the use of literary language in communication with parents is very important. Half of the respondents received guidelines from the management on appropriate communication with parents, the rest did not receive them. A high proportion of respondents received additional education on the topic of communication with parents at least once. At the end of the empirical work, we developed language guidelines for successful communication between teachers and parents.
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