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Academic Writing Made Easy (edX)

Struggling with writing an academic text? This MOOC will ease the pain – and make your writing shine. This MOOC takes you through the basics of academic writing step by step. From structuring and organising an academic text to avoiding common pitfalls that can negatively affect your credibility, this [...]

Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation (FutureLearn)

Sep 18th 2023
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation (FutureLearn)
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Get a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Learn how to build and query corpora in this practical course On this course, you’ll get a practical introduction to corpus linguistics, an extremely versatile methodology of language analysis using [...]

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity (FutureLearn)

Jul 3rd 2023
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity (FutureLearn)
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Learn how sociolinguists explore the relationship between language and the expression of personal, social and cultural identity. We all have preferred accents and ways of speaking, but what makes something ‘good’ or ‘bad’ English? On this course, you will explore where our attitudes to language come from, how they [...]

Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development (FutureLearn)

Mar 6th 2023
Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development (FutureLearn)
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Discover the benefits of multilingualism to enhance your practice in classroom, clinical, and home settings. Discover the value of multilingual environments at school and at home. Most people in the world speak more than one language and schools across the globe are becoming more and more multilingual as families [...]

Towards language universals through lexical semantics: introduction to lexical and semantic typology (Coursera)

The aim of the course is to obtain the idea of the lexicon as a complex system and to get the methodology of the typological approach to the lexicon cross-linguistically, as well as to learn about the general mechanisms of semantic shift and their typological relevance. By the end [...]

TESOL Strategies: Enriching Classrooms (FutureLearn)

Learn the basic principles, considerations and strategies for cultivating a rich language-learning environment. Explore strategies to support the language needs of learners. With increased migration and refugee flows, most teachers are encountering increasingly diverse students in their mainstream classrooms. This course, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other [...]

English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development (FutureLearn)

Oct 25th 2021
English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development (FutureLearn)
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Discover how very young children learn English as an additional language and how you can help them progress. This course for parents and practitioners will explore how young children learn English and investigate many more aspects of early childhood learning and development.

Language Assessment in the Classroom (FutureLearn)

Assessment is becoming increasingly important in language education. Understand it better with this course for language teachers. In the last 15 years, assessment has had an increasingly significant impact on education policy globally. Consequently, there is a growing need among teachers to understand how assessment [...]

Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities (FutureLearn)

Oct 11th 2021
Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities (FutureLearn)
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Learn about central aspects of multilingualism in today's globalised societies, such as cognition, policies and education. In a world of globalisation, people who do not share the same language meet more often every day. Being able to deal with these multilingual practices in an effective way can give you [...]

Language Testing During Awake Brain Surgery (FutureLearn)

Discover the importance and the process of language testing during awake brain surgery. Language representation in the brain can be studied by testing language during awake brain surgery. In this course, you will get to know the importance of neurolinguistics and awake brain surgery by seeing the collaboration between [...]