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Differences in learning style are thought to affect how learners approach learning tasks and may affect success on those tasks. ...

LEPn an abbreviation for limited english proficiency leptokurtic distribution n see kurtosis LES n an abbreviation for limited E ...

level^3 n (in testing) a description of the degree of proficiency expected for a test taker to be placed in a certain position o ...

Researchers in bilingualism have investigated whether the bilingual person stores words in different lexicons for each language. ...

lexical corpus n a collection of words for purposes of language analysis. Many lexical corpora contain millions of words that ca ...

lexical field n also semantic field the organization of related words and expressions (see lexeme) into a system which shows the ...

lexical primingn see priming lexical semantics n the subfield of semanticsconcerned with the meaning of words. lexical set n a g ...

lexicon^1 n the set of all the words and idioms of any language (see lexeme). see also lexicography, lexicology lexicon^2 n a di ...

limited English proficient n also LEP sometimes used to describe a minority studentin an English speaking country, whose English ...

maintain unequal divisions of power, prestige, resources, etc., between groups on the basis of language. see linguistic imperial ...

prevented from going through processes of development and expansion. The spread of English is viewed as imposing aspects of Angl ...

cognition and linguistic expression has been revived in a more subtle form within cognitive linguistics. see also anthropologica ...

cluster is often pronounced as part of the following syllable, a process referred to as resyllabification. For example, left arm ...

listening for gist n also listening for global understanding listening in order to understand the general meaning of a text with ...

LMSn an abbreviation for learning management system loan blend n a type of borrowingin which one part of a word is borrowed from ...

item forms a necessary stage in the teaching of what comes later and items must be taught in that sequence. Grammatical syllabus ...

logical form n also LF see d-structure logical positivism n see positivism logical problem of language acquisition n see also Pl ...

It involves trainees experiencing the content which is the focus of learning. For example if the trainees were learning about th ...

M machine translationn the use of a translation program to translate text without human input in the translation process. Althou ...

maintenance rehearsaln see rehearsal majority languagen the language spoken by the majority of the population in a country, such ...