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control applications by pointing, clicking or dragging, as with a desk-top mouse. Many language courses now come with interactiv ...

interferencen see language transfer intergroup communicationn communication between different groups, especially those which are ...

interlanguage hypothesisn the hypothesis that language learners possess a grammatical system that is different from both the fir ...

internalization n in psychology, the process of acceptance of external norms as one’s own. An individual may start with learning ...

International Phonetic Alphabetn also IPA a system of symbols designed by the International Phonetic Association to be used to r ...

interpretation. Interpretation is often required in a variety of situations, such as conferences, community settings, and the co ...

Whichis your book? What is your name? see also wh-question interrogative sentencen a sentence which is in the form of a question ...

interview schedulen see guided interview intervocalicadj (of consonants) occurring between two vowels. For example, English /d/ ...

Wh-questions usually have the same intonation contour as declarative sen- tences. For example in the question What kind of pheno ...

introductionn see essay introspectionn see verbal reporting introvertn see extrovert intrusionnintrusiveadj when an extra conson ...

IRCn an acronym for Internet Relay Chat, a worldwide synchronous multi-user chat protocol that allows one to converse with other ...

isolating than many other European languages, such as French, German, and Russian, but is also an inflecting language. ITn see i ...

(in testing) a measure of the ease of a test item. It is the proportion of the test takers who answered the item correctly, and ...

J jargonn speech or writing used by a group of people who belong to a particular trade, profession, or any other group bound tog ...

K Kendall rank-order correlationn or Kendall’s tau(t) see correlation Kendall’s coefficient of concordancen also Kendall’s W a m ...

kinesthetic feedback But she’s Peter’s WIFE(where wife also has a fall in pitch) This could be a reply to someone who had just s ...

Kinesthetic learner for example, is an important factor in being able to speak clearly. If this kinesthetic feedback is interfer ...

varianceof the total test scores. A formula that is easier to use (not requiring calculation of item facility) but less accurate ...

L L1 n see first language L2 n another term for a target language^1 or a second language labelled bracketing n a technique for r ...

for control over different aspects of teaching and are hence sometimes preferred to the use of real teaching experiences. labora ...