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Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...code switching be used? What are the benefits of using target language as the main or sole means of communication in the classroom? This section will address some of these considerations and help you to think about your own use of target language with students you teach...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: 2.1 The benefits of using target language in the...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...simple demonstration of the same countries, the same measure of inequality, one problem after another. Why don't we control for other factors? Well, we've shown you that GNP per capita doesn't make any difference. And, of course, others, using more sophisticated methods in the literature, have controlled for poverty, and education, and so on. What about causality?...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...simple as tell me more about that can not only clarify the point for you, but for them as well. Give words of encouragement. It sounds obvious, but a go on or I see can really give much needed encouragement and help the person to continue talking. Don’t feel the need to fill the silences in a conversation though as quiet moments are good and give the person time to...
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...codes that people answer. You might have a question and then six responses that you want people to fit their answer into. So this is quite different. This is much more open-ended. It’s much more a discussion and a conversation with people. So for qualitative research and for in-depth interviews in particular what we use are topic guides and topic guides or discussion...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...simple and inclusive as we accept referrals from all agencies and prioritise on the basis of need rather than source of referral; we offer families a choice of time and dates for appointments, and provide telephone reminders; for families who are likely to struggle to attend we enlist the help of other agencies to support attendance; we see children in non-health settings...
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...simple to complex for example, may require different applications of technology to support both teaching and learning. I might move from a didactic style of introduction through more participative elements, and finally to a completely pupil-centred activity, where the technology progresses from substitute to redefinition depending on the mode of pedagogy. On occasions,...
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...simple engineering systems (such as combining forces) using vectors perform simple algebraic procedures using vectors...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Background - It is common in engineering for physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...simple, commercial benefits, because you’re opening up new possibilities, you’re providing a kind of platform, a foundation for new forms of enterprise and development. Frankly, I think it’s up to developing countries in thinking about what their own needs are to think about what the appropriate indicators are. In a way it doesn’t surprise me at all, but it might...