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The inclusion of pupils with special needs into the mainstream school system is one of the key developments in the Czech school system. However, the evident unpreparedness of teachers for this situation represents a fundamental threat to the realisation of this aim. It is especially apparent in certain subjects where no specific field support for the realisation of inclusion in ordinary school reality exists. Czech language instruction is no exception in this respect. The paper analyses teachers’ needs in connection with teaching pupils with special educational needs, with special respect to the didactic reconstruction of content. It appears that in the case of traditional language teaching it is even more difficult as there is a need not only to alter the way content is didactically transformed, but also for the selection of content as such. The text demonstrates that these needs cannot be saturated by educational interventions that are developed in isolation in the field of special education, but must be developed directly in the field of the didactics of the Czech language. This is the only way of securing the expert adequacy of these interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Czech studies as a study programme at the Beijing Foreign Studies University will celebrate the 60th anniversary. In 1952 Czechoslovakia and the People's Republic of China signed an agreement about the cultural cooperation, which significantly supported Czech studies in China. The beginning of Czech classes took place in the Chinese capital city Beijing at the Faculty of the Russian language, the Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1954 according to the decision of the Chinese Ministry of Education. The first lecturer of the Czech language was the sinologist Dana Štovícková. The lectorate successively employed two lecturers but at the end of 1950s, the international political situation got worse and for good reasons, Czechoslovakia was afraid of the future of the lectorate. Despite the insufficient financial and administrative background, teachers in cooperation with students published the first Czech-Chinese dictionary. During the first decade of the intensive cultural change between both states, a wide range of Chinese lecturers in Czech studies graduated, for instance Zhou Zhiyao, Zhu Weihua or He Lei. This paper brings information about the initial phase of the lectorate of the Czech language in Beijing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]