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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

The Importance of Foreign Language Skills in the Labour Markets of Central and Eastern Europe: An assessment based on data from online job portals. CEPS Special Report No. 129/January 2016 [PDF]

, 2016
In a globalised world, knowledge of foreign languages is an important skill. Especially in Europe, with its 24 official languages and its countless regional and minority languages, foreign language skills are a key asset in the labour market.
Beblavý, Miroslav, Fabo, Brian, Lenaerts, Karolien   +2 more
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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan Futurs fluctuants : passage à l’âge adulte dans le plus grand quartier de logements sociaux de Milan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
wiley   +1 more source

Enseñanza del español y contexto social. La familia como recurso temático para la clase de conversación destinada a estudiantes surcoreanos / Spanish teaching and social environment. The family as a speaking topic for conversation classes in South Korea [PDF]

Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, 2015
In great part, the success or failure of a thematic resource in a conversation class of a foreign language depends on the social environment and educational context of students.
Jorge Manuel Mendoza Puertas
doaj  

EARLY LEARNING OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN CROATIA: THE LEARNER PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

Методички видици
Compulsory foreign language learning at the age of 6–7 followed by optional learning of a second foreign language at the age of 10 was introduced in all Croatian primary schools in 2003. Spanish, as the fifth foreign language learned in Croatia, has only recently been offered as a second foreign language.
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Using achievement tests to measure language assimilation and language bias among immigrant children [PDF]

, 2008
We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants.
Akresh, Ilana Redstone, Akresh, Richard
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

The lexical selection in the Spanish as a foreign language

Maestro y Sociedad, 2018
This article executes a theoretical, historical and methodological characterization of the process of lexical selection in the Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). The beginning presents the need of an intentional selection of the vocabulary in the teaching of languages. Then, appear the valuation of the criteria that have oriented that process through
Leonor Grethel Sierra-Salas, Celia María Pérez-Marqués   +1 more
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Egalitarians despite themselves: envy and leadership in Ecuadorian Amazonia Égalitaires malgré eux : envie et leadership en Amazonie équatorienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
wiley   +1 more source

Spanish as a foreign language textbooks and Multimodality: a contextualized approach

, 2021
El presente artículo es el resultado de investigaciones que se enmarcan en el contexto de la asignatura electiva de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral, llamada “Español para extranjeros”. En este sentido, nos interesa analizar la configuración multimodal de tapas de manuales que forman parte del repertorio de materiales para la enseñanza de español ...
Efron, Andrés Julio, Swiatek, Maia
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