TEFL & SLA

Acronyms / Abbreviations

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TOEFL ?Test of English

as a Foreign Language

ZPD ?Zone of Proximal

Development

ESP ?English for Special

Purposes.

SLA ?Second

Language Acquisition

LOTE ?Languages Other

Than English

ELL ?English Language

Learner

TBI ?Task Based Instruction

ELF ?English as a

Lingua Franca

TSE ?

Test of Spoken English

CELTA ?Certificate of

English Language Teaching to Adults

EAP ?English for Academic

Purposes

ESD ?English as a Second

Dialect

TYLE ?Teaching Young Learners English

B C ?

British Council

IELTS ?International

English Language Testing Service

s-v-o ?Subject – Verb –

Object

LAD ?Language

Acquisition Device

C C ?Communicative

Competence

ESL ?English as a Second

Language

K W L?Know

Want to know

What we Learned

L 1 ?First language

Mother tongue

TOEIC ?Test of English for

International Communication

CBI ?Content Based

Instruction

UG ?Universal Grammar

NL / TL ?Native Language

Target Language

IL ?

Interlanguage

NS / NNS ?Native Speaker

Non-Native Speaker

AF ?Affective

Filter

TL ?Target

Language

MLU ?Mean Length

of Utterance

BSM ?

Bilingual Syntax

Measurement

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