Teaching English Pronunciation in Contemporary Czech and British Textbooks

This thesis aims at exploring and comparing to what extent commonly used contemporary English textbooks for secondary schools produced by Czech and British publishers support teachers in teaching pronunciation. The theoretical part summarizes the changes in the approach to pronunciation teaching within nine well-known foreign language teaching methods and briefly describes current trends in pronunciation teaching as an outcome of a continual development. The practical part presents the result of qualitative, quantitative and methodological analysis of the selected set of four Czech and four British textbooks, comparing their attitude to the teaching of pronunciation