Delta terminology

Delta Module One is not a test of terminology. You do not have to memorise all of
these terms, and you should not aim to put as much terminology into your answers as
possible, just for the sake of it. However, these terms are worth knowing – or, more
importantly – understanding. As well as choosing some words from this list for Block B
Paper 1 Tasks 1 and 2, it’s worth researching the terms you’re not familiar with before
the exam. Note that this is not an exhaustive list!

Lexis

Morphology

Morphemes: freestanding & bound

Compound words

Delexicalised verbs

Lexical verbs

Content words

Function words

Chunks

Collocation

Fixed expressions

Semi-fixed expressions

Affixation: prefixes, suffixes & infixes

Semantic field

Lexical field

Lexical set

Lexical item

Synonyms

Antonyms

Meronyms

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Metonyms

Superordinate

Hypernym

(Co) Hyponyms

Homographs

Homophones

Homonyms

Polysemy

Denotive meaning

Pragmatic meaning

Connotation

Reading

Skimming

Scanning

Extensive reading

Intensive reading

Reading for gist

Reading for specific information

Reading for detailed comprehension

Reading to deduce meaning from context

Reading to infer mood/opinion

Top-down processing

Bottom-up processing

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Listening

Listening sub-skills (gist, specific information, etc. as above)

Intensive listening

Extensive listening

Writing skills

Product writing

Process writing

Drafting

Editing

Publishing

Genre

Audience

Register

Speaking

Ellipsis

Fillers

Back channelling

Turn-taking

Adjacency pairs

Paralinguistic features

Approaches to teaching new language

Inductive

Deductive

PPP

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T-T-T

Guided Discovery

The Lexical Approach

Communicative Language Teaching

Task Based Learning

Grammar Translation

Audiolingualism

Direct Method

Behaviourism and Skinner

Mentalism and Chomsky

Total Physical Response (TPR)

The Silent Way

Suggestopaedia

Community Language Learning (CLL)

The Natural Approach

• The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis

• The Monitor Hypothesis
• The Natural Order Hypothesis
• The Input Hypothesis
• I plus 1
• Roughly-tuned input & Finely-tuned input
• The Affective Filter Hypothesis

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Dogme ELT

Demand High

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Phonology

Segmentals:

Place of articulation

Manner of articulation

Consonant clusters

Minimal pairs

Glottal stop

Suprasegmentals:

Word stress

Connected speech

• Weak/Strong Forms
• Assimilation
• Elision
• Contractions
• Liaison/Linking/Catenation
• Intrusive sounds
• Juncture
Sentence stress

Intonation

Prosody

Allophones

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Accent

Dialect

Syllable-timed languages

Stress-timed languages

Time, Tense and Aspect

Tense

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Aspect

Simple

Continuous

Perfect

Discourse

Discourse analysis

Coherence

Cohesion

Grammatical cohesion

• Reference devices
• Substitution devices
• Ellipsis
• Logical linking devices

Endophoric reference: anaphoric and cataphoric

Exophoric reference

Given-New (Theme-Rheme) ordering of information

Lexical cohesion

• Lexical sets
• Lexical chains
• Consistent register
• Collocation
• Lexical repetition
• Lexical substitution
• Parallelism

Assessment, Testing and Examinations

Achievement test

Diagnostic test

Placement test

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Proficiency test

Authenticity

Practicality

Reliability

Validity

• Content validity
• Face validity
• Construct validity

Backwash

Direct/Indirect testing

Objective/Subjective testing

Discrete point testing

Integrative testing

Criterion-referenced testing

Norm-referenced testing

Formative assessment

Summative assessment

Error and Correction

L1 Interference

Intralingual errors

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