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by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Reading is no longer mainly about extracting information; it is about constructing knowledge, thinking critically and making well-founded judgements". "Students need to be able to read complex texts, distinguish between credible and untrustworthy sources of ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
In general, the press reports too much on country ranking and benchmarking, and too little on more interesting data such as within-country variance; gender equality in the three PISA domains; resources invested in education; the correlation between the students' (and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Hephzibah Anderson explores "the art of the perfect first sentence" in a recent article for BBC Culture. (1) Speaking of her own novel, Chastened, published in 2010 , she says the first line "can ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
All language service providers will claim that they only work with experienced translators, which is mostly true, but this does not per se ensure translation quality. Serious organisations - and there are many - will invest time in preparing ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"It is sometimes said that in order to convey atmosphere a translation must be redone for each generation". Is this really the case? asks author and journalist Sara Wheeler in a recent article for ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SEL) has just been published. (1) Together with the previously published conceptual framework, the Study now has complete framework documentation explaining all of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Contrary to common assumption young people do not necessarily develop sophisticated digital skills just by growing up using digital devices: 18% of students who took part in the latest cycle of the International Computer and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Towards the end of the last decade, a distinctive minimalist style emerged among the users of the micro-blogging site Tumblr: capitals were mostly dispensed with, other than for emphasis, punctuation became notable by its absence; ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Attempts to create an "interslavic" language date as far back as the 17th century. The current version of Interslavic, or Medžuslovjanski, was established in 2017, and was the fruit of the merging of the Slovianski ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The conversion of verbs into nouns is called "nominalisation" (the opposite, turning nouns into verbs, is called "verbing" or "denominalisation"). There are two types of nominalisation. The first involves adding a suffix: the verb "to investigate" produces ... Read more >