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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...changed since then. We find that there are a lot more uses of the English language outside the inner circle, you know, people who use English as an additional language are more in number and also the currency of English, its usage is much more among multilinguals. They are the people who need this language. So people think that the native speakers have lost their clout,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...changes lives, learning to read and access to reading materials is therefore an issue of equality and social justice. High quality reading instruction (comprising teaching strategies to promote word recognition, comprehension and decoding skills) is crucial for children to learn to ‘crack’ the alphabetic code, but instruction alone is not enough – children need to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...changes in 2018 to data protection regulations, it has been decided to remove this forum from the course. But it is still highly beneficial for a writer to share their work with peers, to receive feedback, and to evaluate others' work. You might consider finding somebody you can engage with on this level, maybe a friend or colleague or family member who would like to read...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...change in policy, which had been written by someone who had plagiarised their reports and essays on aspects of social, demographic and economic reforms. Answer Plagiarism has implications beyond the assessment itself...Session 1: Ethics, trust and academic community: why?: 2.3 Being a member of an academic community - When you register on a course to begin studying, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...changes his mind. He says that he will solve the problems by June. I give him much more time. He shall solve the problems by the end of the year. But then this should be solved. We know what happened with the ISL. Nearly 100 pounds million of bribery. Clean up your act by the end of the year. And then we’ll see if more has to be done. One language they understand is the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...changes associated with modernity, from rising nationalism to new developments in psychology. The international upheaval of two world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in...
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Article 45 mins
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...change to ‘’. This means that you are allowed to type only at most 10 more characters. If you encounter this, you should break your calculation into smaller parts. The cursor is a flashing symbol indicating where the next item entered into the calculator will appear...Using a scientific calculator: 1.2 Fractions or decimals? - In Activity 1 you set up your calculator...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...change that occurs at the end of words in Arabic is called إِعْرَاب - Iʿrāb (declensions). Each of these vowels is a sign of a case: kasra: is a sign for the genitive case which concerns nouns only. ḍamma: is a sign for the nominative case which concern both nouns and verbs. Fatḥa: is a sign for the accusative case which concern both nouns and verbs. Sukūn:...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs