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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...everyday world becomes increasingly harder to make sense of. Singing in a group provides a social outlet for women and men living with the condition and their partners (or other family members). Making music can also help people come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with their condition (Osman et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a...
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Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...English transliteration. Listen carefully to the audio, and repeat the letters you hear. Before you move to joining letters in the next section, learning to write independent letters is highly recommended. [Described image] Figure 1 Arabic alphabet Audio 1 Table 1 Arabic letters TRANSLITERATION THE LETTER’S NAME IN ENGLISH THE LETTER’S NAME IN ARABIC THE LETTER...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...English in comparison with the Welsh or Scottish. It is because of this that it has always been that much harder to pin down what it means to be ‘White’ or to be ‘English’. Interestingly, and in both cases, because they are hard to define and because both ethnic identities constitute the majority then we often find slippages in people’s descriptions where...
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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...English will help you to recognise how to make OMT 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...English literature (or ‘western canon’) rather than a person who could effectively read print (see, for example, Mathieson, 1975; Williams, 1965). By the middle of the 20th century, however, the influence of psychometrics and psycholinguistics on literacy education had led to a change of emphasis from ‘becoming literate’ to a focus on teaching the technical skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
World-Changing Women: Caroline Norton
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Caroline Norton

...English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854). Norton’s efforts were influential in bringing about the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. Thus her achievement is to have instigated changes in legislation which ameliorated the position of many women. Learn more about women, the law and history...
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175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...English Teacher. [EIS final poster, showing intersectional aspects of the equality agenda and EIS fight for equal rights.] References, sources and links The EIS 175th anniversary book and EIS posters. The materials presented here and in the accompanying links were compiled by a group of women activists at the EIS. If you would like to contact the Educational Institute of...
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Handel: A Classical Icon
History & The Arts

Handel: A Classical Icon

...English choral tradition, his music still played today at every monarch's coronation. This "Great Londoner" became an icon in his own lifetime. What is the secret of his success? What was one of Handel's performances like, and how powerful is his legacy?... Who is Handel? An introduction to Handel's background, his classic hits and his life in London. Handel's Opera A...
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