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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...history of OMT and the benefits and limitations they pose for language learners. You will also find out about the role reflection plays when using OMT. In the second session, you find a variety of examples of how OMT can be used to support the reading, listening and vocabulary learning in a foreign language. Activities in French, German, Spanish and English will help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...family type. The table shows that family type single, not retired, with children are much more likely to be both in arrears and to have higher heavy burden indicators than all other family types (BIS, 2010). The link between income levels and debt problems was identified again in a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which found that ‘not all low-income...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

...family (Group 2) as SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), but in a new lineage (called Group 2c). The initial name of this novel coronavirus was hCoV-EMC, which stood for human coronavirus–Erasmus Medical College, where the first isolate was sequenced. An additional isolate, provisionally named human coronavirus England 1, was isolated from a patient in London, UK, who had been...
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...families. In many countries across Europe they use ‘junk’ food as a way of expressing a teen identity separate from the adult world of healthy eating advice. Of course, these factors don’t apply to all teens – who vary just as adults do. Some focus on health, or ‘clean eating’, and some certainly make sensible choices about their snacks, among many other...
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The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons
Society, Politics & Law

The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons

...families and undercover journalists. Indeed, some of the most significant revelations came from an undercover journalist in the BBC’s Panorama documentary on HMP Northumberland which, when aired in January 2017, showed secretly recorded footage of prisoners overdosing on drugs; prisoners threatening an officer with a weapon; and of one prison officer who required...
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What makes a great Christmas number one?
History & The Arts

What makes a great Christmas number one?

...family unity - which allows Bob the Builder (2003) and even Mr Blobby (1993) to achieve pop success. Songs that get to number one at Christmas often draw on a spirit of community and togetherness. Musically, songs that are successful at Christmas often feature massed backing choirs which allude to religious choral traditions - check out the massed gospel voices backing...
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What are bed blockers - and are they signs of a failing NHS?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are bed blockers - and are they signs of a failing NHS?

...families refusing to allow their relatives to return home from hospital but rather insisting that they are found a place in a nursing or care home. Delayed discharge of patients is not a new phenomenon or one that is unique to the United Kingdom. When I was nursing in the 1980s, there were often people on the wards who were not there for medical reasons but because no...
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Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...family, research has explored some of the same issues involved in education settings, suggesting the need for caution in simply asserting that having male role models in schools is beneficial for boys. For example, there is evidence that some male teachers are overly disciplinarian and denigrate the work of female teachers, rather than challenging traditional gender...
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