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Rachele de Felice
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Rachele de Felice

Rachele is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language. Her main research and teaching interests are in the areas of corpus linguistics, pragmatics, workplace communication, and the intersections of these - such as corpus pragmatics. She joined the School of Languages & Applied Linguistics in 2022, after ten years as a senior teaching fellow and then lecturer at University College London. Previously she has held ...
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Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

There's been research which suggests picking up an instrument can improve children's educational performance across the board. But is there really any proof?...Music is one of the most beautiful and powerful creations of humankind, and its powers are well known – making us happy and sad or relaxed and excited. And more generally, music can induce powerful feelings – as...
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Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...class distinctions In radio, TV, and film, accent is used a great deal in the creation of character. It is well known that in American productions, a British accent is often used to signify a “villain” and “foreign” accents are also often used this way in animated films and TV programmes. By doing this, the producers are at the same time buying into – and...
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How race, gender, age and class affects the way people are perceived
Health, Sports & Psychology

How race, gender, age and class affects the way people are perceived

...class? Our short animation explores…...The following animation introduces how race, gender, age and class may impact on the way people are perceived and treated. Transcript While the animation, of course, oversimplifies the rather complex processes leading to categorisation and discrimination based on socio-cultural factors, it has hopefully illustrated some of the...
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Article 10 mins
La historia del español en unos seis minutos
Languages

La historia del español en unos seis minutos

...de estos vídeos animados, la fascinante historia del español y sus hablantes y cómo ha evolucionado desde sus orígenes hasta convertirse en una lengua global hablada. También podrás escuchar el español tal y como se hablaba a lo largo de su historia. ¡Adelante! Antes de los Romanos Transcript Latín por todas partes Transcript Influencias germánicas y árabes en...
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Video 5 mins
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Figure 7 Simone de Beauvoir’s class of Philosophy, Lycée Molière, Paris, 1938. Read the following extract, then answer the questions about it. Even when her rights are recognised abstractly, long-standing habit keeps them from being concretely manifested in customs. Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...de Sade, is infamous throughout literature and popular culture for a life and body of work that pushed boundaries. Literally synonymous with sexual and violent excess, his reputation as a writer is often clouded by the extreme nature of his work. In a series of lively and engaging discussions, Alex Barber, Angelica Goodden and Timo Airaksinen re-assess both the man and...
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Audio 48 mins