An interactive learning activity designed for studying Advanced Spanish Language Prepositions. This resource focuses various prepositions taken from the Spanish press.

This is the fifth unit of a series forming a VLE course for first-year students on 'Academic Research'. In this unit students are sensitised to issues around plagiarism, learn how to use quotations in essays, how to reference primary & secondary sources and basic bibliographic skills.

Bibliography for essay: Account for the growing reluctance among the educated classes to prosecute witches in the later seventeenth century. Prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.

A crib sheet and handout for tutors to help first year undergraduates understand what is required of them for essays. This resource will need to be adapted for individual institutions with different criteria for layout of references etc.

Aston University Powerpoint introduction to corpora. A corpus is a collection of pieces of lao nguage text in electronic form, selected according to external criteria to represent, as far as possible, a language or language variety as a source of data for linguistic research.

An examination strategy guide for level 1 and 2 students, intended as a series of discussion points.

This podcast in Portuguese was created by Emilia Kropowska, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled 'The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum'. The podcast was created using Audacity recording software and enhanced with free images using Windows Movie Maker. The recording is based on the student's own original research carried out in the year 2007-2008. This podcast explains the role of orixás in the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé, which was brought to Brazil during the era of slavery, and which has since become one of Brazil's major religions. Orixás play a pivotal role in Candomblé ritual and belief; they are intermediaries between human beings, nature and the divine. The podcast focuses particularly on the role of the orixá Exu, and what he represents within the belief system of Candomblé. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion, aural comprehension or as a base for further research by students in the field of Lusophone, Brazilian and Latin American studies. A transcription of the podcast is provided.

This is the eighth unit of a series forming a VLE course for first-year students on 'Academic Research'. In this unit students are introduced to the basics of grammar and punctuation. Several assignments follow the overview text.

Level 4 English Language course on Syntax and Morphology. This forms part of a series of interactive learning activities that complement lecture and seminar delivery methods and work as continuous assessment. To see the nature of this resource please preview the word document.

These materials offer an introduction for using the correct protocol for citations and references in academic essays following the ‘Harvard’ system. They are designed for postgraduate international students, specifically in applied linguistics/ELT, although they could also be used with undergraduate students. The materials consist of a handout, an accompanying PowerPoint, an example and teacher’s notes with suggested activities.

This resource contains an interactive activity in html to support the defining culture materials. You will need to download and extract the zipped folder to run the activity.