TEACHING TERMINOLOGY

1. learning outcome
This is what the learners will be able to do as a result of studying the material (what will be learned)
2. lead-in
The activity or activities used to prepare students to work on a text or main task
3. schema
A general knowledge framework that a person has about a particular topic.
4. feedback
A message that acknowledges or responds to an initial message.
5. approach
A belief about the nature of language and language learning based on well-known theories.
6. communicative activity
Activity in which real communication occurs. Key features: purposefulness, reciprocity, negotiation,
unpredictability, heterogeneity, synchronicity.
7. interaction
Communication between people in a class
8. personalization
Referring to personal experience when learning language
9. consolidation
A stage of memory formation in which information in short-term or intermediate-term memory is transferred to
long-term memory
10. reflection
careful thought about something
11. drill
a way of learning something by means of repeated exercises
12. concept checking
the technique of asking concept questions or other techniques to check that students have understood a new
structure or item of lexis
13. exposure
being subject to a condition or influence
14. memory
The ability to store and retrieve information over time
15. sensory
having to do with senses
16. input
what is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system.
17. output
A product, result, or service generated by a process
18. controlled practice
When learners use the target language repeatedly and productively in situations in which they have little or no
choice of what language they use
19. grammar
A set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages
20. collocation
when words appear together with greater frequency than others