ELT terms

Source: English Club www.macmillan.com.mx

This glossary contains words and phrases that you may come across when people speak or write about English Language Teaching. Click on a letter group to jump to the relevant section of the alphabet.

A

Accuracy / Fluency Adverb Auditory / Visual discrimination Authentic material

B

Behaviourism Bilingualism Blackboard blindness

C

CALL Challenge Checking meaning Citation form Classroom management Cloze test Cognates / False cognates (false friends) Cognitivism Collocation Communicative approach Competence and Performance Concept checking questions Conceptual Development Concordance Constructivism Controlled / Free practice Corpus Critical period hypothesis Cross-curricular syllabus

D

Deductive learning / Deductive approach Deep end strategy Directionality Distance learning Drill Dynamics

E

EAP Eclectic approach EFL ELT EPP Errors and mistakes Error correction ESL ESOL ESP Extensive / Intensive reading

F

False beginners False friends Fillers Fill-in exercises Fill-in the blank Fill-the-gap exercises Fine motor skills / Gross motor skills Fluency Four skills / Four skills approach Four skills approach Frame dialogue Functional approach Functions

G

Gap-fill exercises Graded language Graded sequence Grading language Grammar / Translation method Gross motor skills Guessing meaning

H

Hand-eye coordination Heuristics High challenge

I

Identifying key words Identifying the source of written material Identifying the topic sentence Immersion Inductive / Deductive Inferential listening Information gap Information transfer Input / Output Instructivism Integrating skills Intensive reading Intransitive verbs

J

Jigsaw reading Jigsaw listening

K

Key Key questions Key words Kinesthetic learners

L

L1 & L2 L1 interference L2 competence Language acquisition / Language learning Language Learning Laterality Lead-in Learner training Learner autonomy Learning strategies Learning styles Lexical approach Lexical set Lexis Listening for detail Listening for gist Listening for specific information Listening skills Lockstep Look and Say approach Low challenge

M

Main idea Minimal pairs Mistake Mixed ability class Model sentence Motivation Multiple intelligences

N

Natural approach Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) NLP Notional approach Notions

O

Open-ended questions Output Overgeneralization

P

Parallel writing Performance Phonics approach / Whole word approach Position holders / Fillers PPP Pre-listening activities Pre-reading activities Presentation Production Productive language Pronoun reference Pronouns Psychomotor skills

R

Reading for gist Reading skills Realia Receptive / productive language skills Recognition / Production Recycling Register Reinforcement Review / revision / reinforcement / recycling Revision Role play Rote learning

S

Scanning Semi-authentic material Silent period Skills Skimming SLA Speaking skills Structural syllabus Structural-situational approach STT Student-centered / teacher-centered Summarizing Syntax

T

Task-based learning Topic sentence Total immersion TPR Transitive / intransitive verbs Transmission mode TTT

U

Use / usage

V

Virtual classroom Visual discrimination

W

Warm-up Weak forms / citation forms Whole word approach Word families Writing skills