FAMU katedra kamery

ilona.koranova@ famu.cz

Teacher, translator

Ilona Starý Kořánová has been working at FAMU since 2004, teaching Czech language courses for foreign students of film and photography. Graduates of her three-semester study program achieve active level A2 and passive level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages.

She studied English and Czech at Charles University. In 1994 to 2010 she worked primarily in the field of translation and film subtitle provision. She currently works with linguistics, particularly corpus linguistics, and the methodology of teaching Czech as a foreign language. She lectures for the Association of Teachers of Czech as a Foreign Language and is a member of the International Association of Teachers of Czech.

 

Published works (selection):

Textbooks

2016 – Film Czech – Czech for students of film and photography, level A1 / A2 (2nd extended edition, Prague, NAMU)

2016 – Film Czech – listening material for the textbook

2012 – Česká čítanka – Czech textbook for levels A2/B1 (Prague, Akropolis)

2012 – Česká čítanka – listening material for the textbook

2002 – Interaktivní čeština – workbook and e-learning course in the Moodle environment (together with Prof. Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield), level B1 to B2 (Prague, Karolinum)

 

Specialised Articles

Kořánová, I .: Máte problém se soustředit? In: Radost z jazyků. Proceedings for the 75th Birthday of Prof. František Čermák. Petkevič V., Adamovičová A., Cvrček V. (eds.) Praha: Lidové noviny Publishing House / Institute of the Czech National Corpus, 2014, p. 231-241.

Kořánová, I .: K metodice výuky českého vidu. In: Čeština jako cizí jazyk VII. Materials from VII. international symposium on Czech as a foreign language. Hasil, Jiří – Hrdlička, Milan (eds.). Prague: Charles University, Euroslavica Publishing House, 2014, p. 141-149.

Kořánová, I .: Vyjadřování přechodu mezi dvěma stavy v češtině s ohledem na výuku cizinců. Sali, 1, 2014, p. 83-91.

Kořánová, I .: Vidová charakteristika deverbativních adjektiv pasivních. Usta ad Albim, 12, 2012, p. 105-115.

Kořánová I., Bermel N .: From Adverb to Verb: Aspectual Choice in the Teaching of Czech as a Foreign Language. In: Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures, eds. C. Cravens, MU Fidler, SC Kresin. Bloomington, Slavica Publishers, Indiana University, 2008. 53-70.

 

Foreign internships:

2001-2003 UCLA – Slavic Department, Los Angeles, USA, teaching and research (18 months)

2003-present – Sheffield University, VB, teaching, research: bilateral cooperation (weekly internships)

2013 – Santiago de Compostela University, Spain (weekly internship)

2016 – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan (two-week internship)