motivation, pedagogical constructivism, digital learning resources, learning process

This contribution introduces the thematic areas of a subcorpus of Digital Educational Resources created by Czech teachers of English and available open access to all teachers from a national web repository. The materials are designed in various formats, from static presentations to interactive ones exploiting various teaching applications and following the recent technical advancement. Their content was thematically analyzed with respect to the expected outcomes and designed subject matter by the Czech Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education. The aim of the present study, that belongs to a large scale research of digital materials used in TEFL, was to ascertain whether the content of DERs for basic education complies with the Czech FEP for BE. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were applied. First, the content of DERs was categorized according to its focus on linguistic vs. communicative skills. Second, the grammatical and lexical subject matter was scrutinized, and finally, the DERs aiming at development of communicative competences were analyzed. The results found several shortcomings of the DERs in question, specifically their narrow scope, focusing mainly on presentation and practicing grammar and vocabulary, recurrence of semantic fields presented by the themes and inadequate representation of all communicative competences.