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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...communicative effects through code-switching. A lot of code-switching is for practical reasons to fill a linguistic gap for a word or concept but I am particularly interested in instances of code-switching where speakers are expressing emotions, making evaluations or achieving in-group bonding. To demonstrate this, I am going to discuss three examples. In the first...
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Article 5 mins
Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...communicated a sense of the good citizen as someone who enacts diversity, openness and respect. Here’s a few comments: I am (citizenship) Macedonian Living in (Nation) the UK A good citizen is: Someone who brings a different point of view and extends the capability of the nation to strive. * I am (citizenship) Turkish Living in (Nation) the UK What makes a good citizen...
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Video 10 mins
Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...community divisions?...[Children jumping] The unveiled and direct attacks this week between the DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson and a senior Catholic bishop, Donal McKeown, have once again raised the thorny and entangled issue of the role of education in Northern Ireland as either a vehicle for social cohesion or one of perpetuating community divisions. The...
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Article 15 mins
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...communicating their views. Yet participation means more than merely listening. Not only do children and young people have a basic human right to express their views on matters which are important to them, but also that their views are taken on board by adults and used to improve young people’s lives. Children and young people can participate in different ways. They can...
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Article 5 mins
Why we should remember the Armenians
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should remember the Armenians

...Communism in Soviet Russia. The virtual Radio Yerevan was the cradle of the socio-political humour which attacked the system; and here is a most glorious, sharp and quick-witted example of it. Lady-teacher asks an infant – what is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? The child answers – capitalism is the exploitation of Man by Man, and Communism is its...
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Article 5 mins
Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...Community Trust, thus set up its own scheme to recognise Black people who, in the words of Warner, ‘have done unusual, outstanding, amazing things that are not recognised by the mainstream’. Over the last few years, they have erected plaques to notable individuals such as Cecil Belfield Clark, Darcus Howe, Emily Clarke, Phyllis Wheatley, Harold Moody and Sarah Parker...
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Article 5 mins
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...community." It is unknown whether Stormé was the one woman who fought her way out of a police wagon, but all accounts agree that she was one of several butch lesbians who fought back against the police. Tammy Novak was an 18-year-old transgender woman who is also known to be one of the first people to fight back. She had lived with mob owner Fat Tony so was one of the...
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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...communal’ past—the general events in mathematics education and their influences on school practices, as well as the perceptions of mathematics and school in the cultures in which we grew up. The past exerts a serious grip on the present, helpfully in terms of maintaining tradition and continuity across generations, and unhelpfully for the same reasons. A colleague,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs