Realia (company)
Realia may refer to: * Realia (education), objects from real life used in classroom instruction * Realia (library science), three-dimensional objects from real life that do not easily fit into the traditional categories of library material * ''Realia'', a disused name for a genus of molluscs, ''Liarea'' * Realia (translation) In translation, Realia (plural noun) are words and expressions for culture-specific material elements. The word ''realia'' comes from medieval Latin, in which it originally meant “the real things”, i.e. material things, as opposed to abstra ...

Realia (education)
In education, realia (/riˈeɪˌliˌə/ pron. ree-ay-lee-ah) are objects from real life used in classroom instruction by educators to improve students' understanding of other cultures and real-life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for common objects and the objects themselves. In many cases, these objects are part of an instructional kit that includes a manual and is thus considered as being part of a documentary whole by librarians. Realia are also used to connect learners with the key focal point of a lesson by allowing tactile and multidimensional connection between learned material and the object of the lesson. They are best represented by simple objects lending themselves to classroom settings and ease of control with minimum risk of accident throughout the student-object interaction. Technology has begun to impact the use of realia by adding the virtual realia option, whereby three-dimensi ...
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Realia (library Science)
In library classification systems, realia are three-dimensional objects from real life such as coins, tools and textiles, that do not fit into the traditional categories of library material. They can be either man-made (artifacts, tools, utensils, etc.) or naturally occurring (specimens, samples, etc.), usually borrowed, purchased, or received as donation by a teacher, library, or museum for use in classroom instruction or in exhibits. Archival and manuscript collections often receive items of memorabilia such as badges, emblems, insignias, jewelry, leather goods, needlework, etc., in connection with gifts of personal papers. Most government or institutional archives reject gifts of non-documentary objects unless they have a documentary value. When accepting large bequests of mixed objects they normally have the donors sign legal documents giving permission to the archive to destroy, exchange, sell or dispose in any way those objects which, according to the best judgement of the ar ...
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Liarea
''Liarea'' is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Liareinae ''Liareinae'' is a taxonomic subfamily of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Genera Genera within the subfamily ''Liareinae'' include: Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins .... Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Liarea'': * '' Liarea aupouria'' Powell, 1954 * '' Liarea bicarinata'' (Suter, 1907) * '' Liarea egea'' (Gray, 1850) * '' Liarea hochstetteri'' (Pfeiffer, 1861) * '' Liarea lepida'' (Suter, 1904) * '' Liarea ornata'' Powell, 1954 * '' Liarea turriculata'' (Pfeiffer, 1855) References Pupinidae {{Pupinidae-stub ...
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