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Acknowledgements

This week was written by Zsófia Demjén and adapted for OpenLearn by Maria Leedham.

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Week 1

Images

Course image: FatCamera/Getty Images

Slideshow of logos/brands: WWF: https://www.wwf.org.uk/; Ferrari: https://www.ferrari.com/en-GB; Adidas: https://www.adidas-group.com/en/; McDonalds: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb.html; Ikea: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/; BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/; Disney: https://www.disney.co.uk/; YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/

Innocent drink packages and back of an Innocent Smoothie carton: courtesy: Innocent Drinks: https://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk

Audio

Activity 2 audio: ©The Open University 2015

Week 2

Images

Word cloud: Created by The Open University using https://www.freewordcloudgenerator.com/generatewordcloud

Photograph of a classroom: ©The Open University

Figure 1: A screenshot of AntConc software in use: https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

Video

Activity 2 video: © The Open University 2015

Activity 3 video: © The Open University 2016

Activity 4 video: © The Open University 2016

Week 3

Text

Activity 8: quotation from Ereaut, G. (2013) ‘How language reveals barrier to success’, Market Leader, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 34–6.

Images

Group of colleagues in a work environment: Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images

Lily pond: courtesy © Peter Schein

Figure 1: Screenshot from Prostate Cancer UK in 2011: https://prostatecanceruk.org/

Audio

Activities 3, 5, 7 audios: © The Open University 2015

Week 4

Images

Figure 1: gchutka/Getty Images

Week 5

Images

Figure 1: A speech and language specialist at work: FatCamera/Getty Images

Figure 2: Building Early Sentences: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/best/

Figure 3: An SLT works one-to-one with a young child: AMELIE-BENOIST/BSIP/Alamy

Audio

Activity 1 audio: © The Open University 2015

Activity 2 audio: © The Open University 2015

Activity 4 audio: © The Open University 2015

Week 6

Images

Figure 1: shorrocks/Getty Images

Audio

Activity 1 audio: © The Open University 2015

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