Glossary of language education terms
Template:Short description Language teaching, like other educational activities, may employ specialized vocabulary and word use. This list is a glossary for English language learning and teaching using the communicative approach.
Glossary
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Behavioural psychology Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Bottom-up information processing Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Brainstorming Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Burn-out Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Chomsky, Noam Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Chorus Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Classroom climate Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Classroom management Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Cloze Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Collocation Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Colloquialism Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Communicative Competence Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Communicative Language Teaching Script error: No such module "anchor". Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Competence learning model Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Comprehensible input Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Content words Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Context clues Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Contrastive analysis Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Controlled practice Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Creative construction hypothesis Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Culture Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Deductive teaching Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Delayed copying Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Descriptive grammar Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Diagnostic test Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Dictation Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Discourse Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Facilitator Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Feedback Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Fluency Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Form-focused instruction Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Free practice Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Function words Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Functional syllabus Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Gesture Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Grammar Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Graded reader Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Grammar translation method Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Grammatical syllabus Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Guided practice Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Idiom Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Inductive teaching Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Input hypothesis Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Interference Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Interlanguage Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Interlocutor Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Intonation Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Krashen, Stephen Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Language content Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Language experience approach Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Language learning requirements Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Language skills Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Learning burden Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Learning factors Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Lesson plan Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Lexis Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Listening Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Look and say Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Metalanguage Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Model/modelling Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Motivation Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Motivation paradox Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Native speakers Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Needs assessment Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Non-native speakers Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Objectives Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Oral Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Over-correction Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Paradox of language acquisition (also called The Poverty of the Stimulus) Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Passive vocabulary (also called receptive vocabulary) Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Passive Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Peer correction Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Phonemic awareness Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Phonology Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Placement tests Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Prescriptive grammar Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Proficiency level Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Proficiency tests Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Rapport Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Realia Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Recycling or spiralling Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Register Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Scan Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Skim Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Social context Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Sociolinguistics Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Strategic competence Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Student and teacher Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Student feedback Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Student-centred Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Structure Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Student-generated material Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Survey Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Syllabus or curriculum Script error: No such module "anchor". Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Syntax Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Tape script Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Task-based syllabus Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Teachable moments Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Teacher talk Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >TEFL vs. TESL Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Technique Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Thematic syllabus Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Top-down information processing Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Uninterrupted sustained silent writing Template:Defn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Vocabulary, importance of Template:Defn <dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Vocabulary-based syllabus Template:Defn
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See also
- Language education
- CALL
- Monolingual learners' dictionaries
- English language
- Grammar
- Language
- Learning by teaching
- Learning by teaching in German
- Linguistics
- Second language
- Second language acquisition
- Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- English language learning and teaching
- UNIcert
References
- Peter McKenzie-Brown, Reflections on Communicative Language Teaching: A Course Book for Teaching English as a Second Language;copyrighted August 2012; Template:ISBN.print()for for loop statement