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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...variables. Assessing the outcome of language learning ‘Fluency’ is often thought of as conversational fluency – the ability to have an everyday conversation. Young learners in particular can achieve conversational fluency quite quickly. However, the conversational ease of young learners often fools us into overlooking that they may have continued difficulty with the...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...classes of Cepheid variables. Classical Cepheids are relatively large and luminous, typically resulting from stars much more massive than the Sun and having relatively long periods (a few days to a few weeks). Type II Cepheids are smaller with shorter periods. The RR Lyrae stars are typically older, less massive than the Sun and have shorter periods measured in hours....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...variables. Section 3 looks at applications of differential equations for solving real world problems. Section 4 introduces the integrating factor method for solving linear differential equations. The final two sections summarise and revise the methods introduced in the previous sections and describe various other approaches to finding solutions of first-order differential...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Renewable Energy and the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Renewable Energy and the UK

...variable renewables to ensure it meets demand is one of the key challenges in a transition to a renewable future. Because wind and solar power output is variable, new ways of balancing supply and demand are being developed. These involve a mixture of demand management, storage, backup from conventional power stations, and new grid connections to other countries. Can...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...class leadership. Working class understandings and views are much harder to reconstruct because these represent the experiences of the mass of ordinary Clydesiders who left little in the way of sources which historians can access. These are the men and women, skilled and unskilled, Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Conservatives, internationalists and (Irish,...
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Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...class of object in the 1970s. They are variable on timescales of days or less. All are strong and variable radio sources. There are two subclasses. BL Lac objects are characterised by spectra in which emission lines are either absent or extremely weak. They lie at relatively low redshifts. At first, they were mistaken for variable stars until their spectra were studied....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Wales: Culture and identity
Society, Politics & Law

Wales: Culture and identity

...class, work, and political and cultural representation in Wales. This material forms part of The Open University course D172 Contemporary Wales... Rugby and Welsh identity Gareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby. Place and belonging in Wales Graham Day connects place, with...
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Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples. Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come to symbolise what the public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this dubious honour. Not far behind...
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