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This two-CD compilation, drawn from the extensive collection of language and dialect recordings held by the British Library Sound Archive, includes 143 recordings that capture and celebrate the rich...
Two programmes relating to course AA306, Shakespeare: text and Performance. Band 1) Theatre Games: Dramatist Clive Barker, actress Fiona Shaw and Cicely Berry, voice director of the Royal Shakespeare...
English is now the dominant language spoken by over a billion people and second language users of English now outnumber native speakers. All of this is having a profound effect on the language and how it is...
Interviews in Japanese of two academics from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, Dr Harukiyo Hasegawa and Yoko Sellak: 1) Dr Hasegawa in interviewed by Professor Jo-Seol Kim,...
Looks at a series of popular television advertisements for electrical power, which feature animated models of animals and a script made up of edited comments spoken in a British regional accent. Shows how...
Looks at the standard English accent known as received pronunciation (RP) using actors, members of the royal family and language experts. Looks at the pronunciation features that characterise RP, at how...
Should English be the official language of the USA? More and more Americans think it should be because the increasing number of speakers of Spanish and other languages are seen by some to threaten the...
Looks at the distinctive ways the English language is used in television news by following a group of trainee journalists, observing their successes and failures. Also features extracts from the BBC...
Explores the subject of English-medium education in the south Indian city of Bangalore. Follows three families who have chosen to send their children to three very different kinds of English-medium schools,...
An overview of some key topics in developmental psychology, looking at experiments that display early abilities in the infant to recognise rules, faces and biological motion. Examines the early development...
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