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Languages

Describing language

...works and it is a useful starting point if you wish to study languages and/or applied linguistics at The Open University...Do you know the difference between a noun and an adjective? Do you know why we say indefatigable but not unfluffabluable? Would you like to? In this course you’ll go on a whistle-stop tour of all the key components of language. You’ll learn how to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third session focuses on learning grammar and practising translation and presents you with different sample activities in French, German, Spanish and English to support your learning and teaching in these areas with OMT. Session 4 draws this course to a conclusion by demonstrating when and how OMT can be...
How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...social and environmental responsibility has taken a severe knock. Diesel cars represent a large proportion of new car sales in Europe and also of vehicles in use. Many of these will be Volkswagen Group vehicles bought by people who probably thought that they were helping reduce carbon emissions. While they certainly did so – the TDI-engines in question are among the...
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...social organisation to become more influential. Alternative models, based on goals that include the environment and wellbeing, may have more space to establish themselves. Examples include the Genuine Progress Indicator and Gross National Happiness. The next four years will be challenging. Environmentalists will need to be vociferous in raising concerns with the US...
Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...social and economic backgrounds give ample grounds for being confident. While self-confidence is generally regarded as a positive attribute, it can also take on the malignant form of over-confidence. Psychologically, overconfidence can be defined as subjective confidence in one’s judgments that is greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments. In relation to...
Why did the SNP lose seats in the 2017 General Election?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did the SNP lose seats in the 2017 General Election?

...social democratic manifesto was a major draw for these voters, and some of them may have voted for Labour at the expense of the SNP. 5. The Brexit factor It is often forgotten that a third of SNP voters backed Brexit in the EU referendum last year. While official data has yet to be released, it is possible that some of these people abandoned the SNP in order to vote for a...
After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
Society, Politics & Law

After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...social norms of an affected population) – and cholera, like Ebola, is one of the few infectious diseases that remains alive long enough after death to infect those who handle the bodies. Sudden onset disasters that kill the healthy do not themselves cause epidemics. Dead bodies, even when decomposing, are not a serious risk to public health unless the cause of death was...
To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...social role clearly is important here (the same could be said for the historic centre of Warsaw, which was also reconstructed). The process of reconstruction itself raises a host of philosophical issues. To reconstruct something is to recreate it as it was – one aim must be some degree of authenticity. But what should be recreated? The house as it was in its heyday? Or...