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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...perception and interaction. Reference: Underhill, A. (2010) Four reasons to teach pronunciation...Week 1 Why teach pronunciation?: Speaking with an accent - When learning a new language, our mother tongue undoubtedly exerts an influence over our pronunciation, which is perceived by native speakers as a foreign accent. The divergent pronunciation might be due to segmental...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...perception of the student teachers’ role in ITE recognise some of the ways in which these differences manifest themselves in the UK understand effective student teacher learning and how students themselves perceive the process of learning to teach...Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach: 1 Views of learning to teach - Activity 1: Reasons to become a...
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...perception. [Figure 7] Holly, R. et al. (1997) ‘Neurobiology of speech perception’, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 20. Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved © Holly, R. et al. (1997) ‘Neurobiology of speech perception’, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 20. Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved Figure 7 Categorical...
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...perception of Rousseau as the spiritual godfather of Fascism. But there is much more evidence that he extolled the collective only insofar as it was compatible with the inner freedom of its members—freedom of the heart. As he wrote in “Reveries,” “I had never thought the liberty of man consists in doing what he wishes, but rather in not doing that which he does...
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...perception is lacking when it comes to stories of diversity, and what we can do to change this. ...Find out more about The Open University’s history courses. [Ladies of Llangollen]Eleanor Charlotte Butler and Sarah Ponsonby ran away from Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriage. They arrived in Llangollen in 1778 and settled there as a couple,...
Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...perception of young people as being destructive to society and shining a spotlight on those young people who are looking to improve their communities, both locally and across the UK." "I first got involved with the Diana Award when I was working with an organisation called 'Changing Faces' which is a charity that works with people who have facial disfigurements. And after...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...perceptions and recorded rates of ‘crime’. 2. Isn’t it human nature to be self-interested and to take advantage of others? Don’t we need a tough and harsh criminal justice system to keep these natural human impulses under control? It is inaccurate to suggest that human beings are “naturally” interested mainly in themselves. No person is an island and we are...
The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...perception and memory) as well as an attentional shift interrupting the ongoing processes of a parallel task (Horstmann, 2005; Reisenzein et al., 2006; Reisenzein & Studtmann, 2007; Asplund et al., 2010). In this sense, the attentional system becomes more focused and impairs the working memory (Martin et al., 2012). While the focus can help to evaluate the situation,...