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This free course was written by Tita Beaven, Fernando Rosell-Aguilar and Olly Richards.

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Intoduction Images

Course image: © The Open University and its licensors: including: busuu https://www.busuu.com/; Twitter https://about.twitter.com/; Duolingo https://www.duolingo.com/; iTalki https://www.italki.com/. Created by Bryan Mathers http://bryanmmathers.com

Images of authors: courtesy of Tita Beaven, Olly Richards and Fernando Rosell-Aguilar.

Week 1

Text

9. Extract from Murdoch, A., ‘How to set SMART goals for language learning’ at http://www.5minutelanguage.com/ how-to-set-smart-goals-for-language-learning/. Images: first: public domain; second: © Steven Depolo in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/.

Images

Figure 1: courtesy: © Tita Beaven.

Figure 4: courtesy: © Fernando Rosell-Aguilar.

Figure 5: adapted from: Hadfield, J. Dornyei, Z.(2013) Motivating Learning, Routledge, imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Audio-visual

Activity 1 audio: Visualising the future: © The Open University. Narration adapted from Hadfield, J. Dornyei, Z. (2013) pp. 35–7, Motivating Learning, Routledge, imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Tables

Table 2: from COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES: LEARNING, TEACHING, ASSESSMENT (p. 24, Table 1: Common Reference Levels: global scale), Language Policy Unit, Strasbourg www.coe.int/lang-CEFR.

Week 2

Text

Activity 3: Extract from ‘Short Guide to Japan Etiquette’ https://www.etiquettescholar.com/ dining_etiquette/ table-etiquette/ pacific_dinner_etiquette/ japanese.html, etiquette Scholar

Images

Figure 1: courtesy © Olly Richards

Week 4

Images

Figure 1: courtesy © Malachy Ray Rempen 2017 http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/.

Figure 2: © Aysezquicmeli/Shutterstock.

Figure 3: courtesy: © Tita Beaven https://language-exchange-basics.teachable.com/.

Figure 4: all Creative Commons Zero https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ zero/ 1.0/ top, left to right: Startup Stock Photos, Caio https://www.pexels.com; Startup Stock Photos. Second left to right: Pixabay; rawpixel.com; Marc Mueller; rawpixel.com. Third left to right: iPrice Group; Pixabay; Pixabay; Tirachard Kumtanom. Bottom left to right: Pixabay; https://www.pexels.com; rawpixel; Kaboompics/Karolina.

Week 5

Images

Figure 1: © sirtavelalot/Getty Images

Figure 2: courtesy: courtesy © Malachy Ray Rempen 2017 http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/

Figure 3: © sirtravelalot /Shutterstock

Figure 4: © The Open University. Created by Bryan Mathers http://www.bryanmmathers.com/ .

Week 6

Tables

Table 1: adapted from: Schmitt, N. and Schmitt, D. (2014) ‘A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching’, (adapted from Nation, 2006, p. 64) Language Teaching, vol 47, no. 4, pp. 484–503.

Images

Figure 1: courtesy © Malachy Ray Rempen 2017 http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/

Figures 4–7 courtesy © Tita Beaven

Audio-visual

6.5 Video: Osmosis /open.osmosis.org https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en

Week 7

Images

Figure 2: photograph of book cover Le Schtroumpfeur De Bijoux : https://pixabay.com/ en/ reading-comic-album-book-1394124/

Figure 3: © James Chapman

Week 8

Images

Figure 1: © The Open University and its licensors: including busuu https://www.busuu.com/; Twitter https://about.twitter.com/; Duolingo https://www.duolingo.com/; iTalki https://www.italki.com/. Created by Bryan Mathers http://bryanmmathers.com.

Figure 2: © The Open University. Created by Bryan Mathers http://bryanmmathers.com.

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