{"id":4159,"date":"2018-04-14T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:41:01","slug":"multilingual-debate-at-heriot-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/2018\/04\/14\/multilingual-debate-at-heriot-watt\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual debate at Heriot Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HWS3 linguists from Calderhead High School\u2019s Modern Languages Department recently attended Heriot-Watt University’s Multilingual Debate at their campus in Edinburgh. The debate is an annual event that showcases the interpreting skills of students on the University Languages (Interpreting and Translating) degree programmes, and takes the form of a formal debate with two multilingual teams arguing for and against a motion of topical interest in a range of languages. The motion this year was: \u201cThis House believes that social media present a serious threat to the health and safety of young people.\u201d Our pupils participated in the debate by listening to the arguments, putting questions to the speakers in the languages represented and voting on the motion. Pupils also enjoyed a Confucius Workshop, particularly the free food samples on offer! Everyone really enjoyed their day at Heriot Watt University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S3 linguists from Calderhead High School\u2019s Modern Languages Department recently attended Heriot-Watt University’s Multilingual Debate at their campus in Edinburgh. The debate is an annual event that showcases the interpreting skills of students on the University Languages (Interpreting and Translating) degree programmes, and takes the form of a formal debate with two multilingual teams arguing … Continue reading Multilingual debate at Heriot Watt<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[170,1989,499773],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-french","tag-modern-languages","tag-spanish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}