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Language and Meaning: How We Learn - for iPad/Mac/PC

The Open Universitywww3.open.ac.uk
What do English language teachers in the early 21st century need to know about the relationship between language and meaning? How can teachers enable students to learn language, learn through language and learn about language in the myriad different contemporary contexts of formal and informal learning? This material is taken from The Open University course E852 Language, literacy and learning in the contemporary world.
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Episodes

Scarlett in the garden

Two year old Scarlett uses and develops her language as she explores the under-life of the garden with her father.

Dec 20, 20115 min

Intercultural communication difficulties

In a Chinese University class, a teacher uses examples from signage around the world to illustrate linguistic misunderstandings in translations into English.

Dec 20, 20114 min

Multimodal learning

This video demonstrates multimodal analysis of classroom learning.

Dec 20, 201110 min

Words and images

This video demonstrates a multimodal analysis of the well-known fairy tale ‘Hansel and Gretel.’

Dec 20, 20116 min

Transcript -- Words and images

Transcript -- This video demonstrates a multimodal analysis of the well-known fairy tale ‘Hansel and Gretel.’

Dec 20, 2011
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