Language Provision in UK MFL Departments 2018 Survey

The report investigates the provision of language modules (i.e. modules whose object of study is language) in MFL departments alongside models of collaboration between Languages departments and Institution-Wide Language Provision (IWLP) in UK universities. Results offer an invitation to reconceptualise our discipline to strengthen an agenda of inclusion and diversity integrating all languages, as well as a single voice for MFL and IWLP

The modernist character : a study in the short fiction of Bontempelli, Gadda, Landolfi and Palazzeschi

This study seeks to explore the relationsh~ between the short story/racconto genre and the negative representation of the character in Italian modernist literatufe. In the first chapter, considerations regarding the crisis at the tum ofthe twentieth century and the concept and development ofthe Italian racconto are investigated, with the purpose ofhighlighting modernist features within Italian literature around and prior to the 1930s, the time in which my selected authors (Bontempelli, Gadda, Landolfi and Palazzeschi) were writing. Subsequently, the notion ofantihero within these writers' selected raccolte di racconti is explored: the character emerges as an inetto, an essentially negative creature, bearing the signs ofEuropean modernism. These features (alienation, solitude, social anomaly, melancholy, dissolution ofselfhood, anguish, fragmentation) are then considered in the following four chapters, each one dedicated to one author. For each author, the issue of character representation is explored in relation to a different conception ofracconto writing. Bontempelli's objective approach, Gadda's and Landolfi's subjective approaches, and Palazzeschi's return to objectivity are discussed together in the conclusion, where a mapping ofthe negative modernist character is attempted, ultimately revealing, through Palazzeschi's buffo, an unexpected, positive outcome to the problematic representation ofthe modernist antihero.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

eFEP Final Evaluation Report

The quality of feedback is essential to effective learning and has also been shown to be a critical factor in terms of motivation and student satisfaction. Technological solutions are increasingly being adopted as potentially valuable ways of improving the quality and effectiveness of feedback in Higher Education. A number of institutions now handle assignment feedback electronically (e‑feedback) through a variety of written, spoken, audiovisual and audiographic media. Every year, language tutors at the Open University (UK) return about 36,600 electronic feedback forms, 19,000 annotated word-processed scripts and 18,000 MP3 files containing spoken feedback. The aim of this project was therefore to evaluate the use of spoken and written e-feedback when these modes of delivery are centrally adopted for all assignments in an entire subject area within an institution. The evaluation focused on current practice in modern languages at the Open University in terms of the quality of feedback itself, staff and student perceptions, and student engagement. In order to test the extent to which the lessons learnt at the OU were applicable to non-distance learning contexts, we also conducted a smaller-scale evaluation of the use of e-feedback at the University of Manchester. The Manchester evaluation was more narrowly focused on the use of audio-recorded e-feedback in Italian modules

EXECUTAREA ORDINULUI SAU DISPOZIŢIEI SUPERIORULUI – CAUZĂ CARE ÎNLĂTURĂ CARACTERUL PENAL AL FAPTEI

Executarea ordinului sau dispoziţiei superiorului constituie una din cauzele care înlătură caracterul penal al faptei. Rolul acestei cauze este incontestabil, deoarece instituie o garanţie a legitimităţii ordinelor superiorului, conferind şi o siguranţă persoanelor responsabile de executarea lor. EXECUTION OF AN ORDER OR COMMAND FROM A SUPERIOR - CIRCUMSTANCE THAT ELIMINATES THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF AN ACTExecution of an order or command from a superior is one of the circumstances that eliminate the criminal nature of an act. The importance of this circumstance is incontestable, because it sets up a waranty of legitimate character of superior’s order, giving also security for those who are responsible for their execution. </p