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GLOSSARY
TPR “Total Physical Response”
A teaching technique where by a learner (usually young learner) responds to language input with body motions.
Acquisition vs learning
Is a subconscious process identical in a important ways to the process children utilize in acquiring their first language, and learning is a conscious process that result in knowing
about the rules of language.
Mother tongue
A person's native language that is, a language learned from birth.
Silent period
Is the idea that when a language is learned, there should be a period in which the learner is not expected to actively
produce any language. This is based on observations of a listening period in infants when they learn a first language.
EFL "English as a Foreign Language“
A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non native speakers in countries where English
is generally not a local medium of communication.
ESL “English as a Second Language”
Students whose first language is something other than English are referred to as "English Language Learners" and are
often designated as ESL in order to receive accommodations and support with their language
acquisition goals.
Drill
Is a classroom technique used to practise new language. It involves the teacher modelling a word or a sentence and
the learners repeating it.
Approach
The method used or steps taken in setting about a task.
Phonics
Is a method of teaching young learners how to read which focuses on how letters make sounds, and how
these sounds make words. It can be compared with the whole word, or 'Look and say' approach, which focuses
on recognising words.
Digital literacy
Is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology.
Multiple Intelligence
Theory says that there are at least eight different kinds of intelligence, and that human beings possess all of them to
different degrees. Learners' profiles of intelligences will affect their preferences when learning.
Target language
Is the language learners are studying, and also the individual items of language that they want to learn, or the teacher
wants them to learn.