ArchiveMarch 2009

The 14 Categories of Language Use

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RIvers & Temperly (A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English, OUP, 1978, p. 47) list 14 purposes or categories of language use establishing and maintaining social relations expressing one’s reactions hiding one’s intentions talking one’s way out of trouble seeking & giving information learning or teaching others to do or make something conversing over the telephone...

The 6 Factors that Reduce Cognitive Decline in Old Age and the 4 Factors that Predict Earlier-than-average Decline

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Researchers have identified 6 risk factors that everyone should be aware of. The following variables reduce the risk of cognitive decline in old age according to Merriam, Gafarella & Baumgartner (2007, Learning in Adulthood, p. 371) absence of cardiovuscular and other chronic diseases living in favorable environmental circumstances substantial involvement in activities maintenance of high...

A Multimedia Resource for Language Learning

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I have been racking my brains over the past few weeks in vain. I am incapable of thinking of a proper topic myself and that prevents me from starting work on the assignment which reads as follows This assignment consists of two interrelated parts: A multimedia resource for language learning for classroom or self-access use. An accompanying rationale. A multimedia resource You should create a...

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