CORE GLOSSARY [updated 23/09/13]

acquisition code-switching
activity cognate
adjective cognitive
adverb communication
affix communicative competence
affricate communicative practice
agent competence
aims complement
allomorph complementary distribution
allophone compound
analytical comprehensible input
analytical learning conjoin
anaphoric conjunction
antecedent conjunctive
antonym connector
archiphoneme connotation
article consonant
aspect content
aspirate Content Based Instruction [CBI]
assessment Content and Language Integrated
assimilation Learning [CLIL]
authentic context
auxiliary continuant
backchaining contraction
behaviourism controlled practice
bottom-up processing copula
broad creole
case cryptolect
cataphoric cumulative repetitive story
causative curriculum
chunks decreolisation
circumlocution definite article
classroom management deixis
clause demonstrative
cleft sentence denotative
clitic dental
cloze derivation
determiner genitive
devoiced gerund
diachronic glide
dialect global learning
dictation grade
diphthong grading
discourse grammar
discourse competence group work
drilling head
echo holistic learning
educational policy homonyms
educational psychology homorganic
educational science [general didactics] icebreaker
eliciting idiolect
elision idiom
ellipsis immersion
English as a Foreign Language [EFL] imperative
English as a Second Language [ESL] inductive approach
English Language Teaching [ELT] infix
epenthesis inflection
error correction information gap
etymological input
euphemism in-service teacher training
evaluation intake
existential integrated content and language
exponent intensive listening
exposure to language intensive reading
extensive reading interaction
extensive listening International Phonetic Alphabet [IPA]
filler intonation
finite isogloss
foreign language jargon
Foreign Language Didactics [FLD] kinaesthetic learner
Foreign Language Teaching [FLT] language
fortis Language Acquisition Device [LAD]
free practice language modifications
function language skills
functional language systems
gender learner-centred
generative grammar learning
left-dislocation observation task
lenis onomatopoeia
lexicalisation onset
lexical item organs of speech
lexicon oxytone
lexis pair work
linguistic competence paradigm
linguistics paradigmatic
listening paraphrase
listening comprehension parataxis
long-term memory parts of speech
marked passive
materials patient
metalanguage perfective
metalinguistic awareness periphrasis
metaphor periphrastic
methodology phoneme
minimal pair phonetic transcription
modal phonetics
modelling phonology
model text pidgin
monitor practice
mood pragmatic competence
morpheme pragmatics
morphology prefix
mother tongue preposition
multisensory teaching presentation
native speaker pre-service teacher training
naturalistic language environment primary education
neologism procedures
neutralization pro-drop
nominalization progressive
notion project work
notional pronoun
noun pronunciation
noun phrase prothesis
nucleus psycholinguistics
number psychology
object reading
objectives Received Pronunciation [RP]
redundant task
register task-based
relative clause teacher
repetition teacher training
roleplay teacher-centred
scaffolding teacher’s talk
scanning Teacher’s Talking Time [TTT]
schwa teaching
second language Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
secondary education [TEFL]
semantic field Teaching English to Speakers of Other
semantics Languages [TESOL]
semivowel tense
sentence time
sentence stress time reference
short-term memory timetable
sibilant tonic
skill top-down processing
skimming Total Physical Response [TPR]
slang traditional grammar
sociolect transfer
sociolinguistics transformational grammar
sociology transitive
speaking Universal Grammar [UG]
speech community unmarked
spelling unvoiced
spoken language utterance
structuralism valency
student verb
student-centred verb phrase
Students’ Talking Time [STT] vocabulary
subordinate vocal cords
substitution table voice
suffix voiced
syllable voiceless
syllabus vowel
synaeresis weak form
synchronic writing
synonym written language
syntax Zone of Proximal Development [ZPD]