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reading, writing, or lip-reading English. Some manual codes such as Signed English or the Pagett-Gorman system are based on Engl ...

mass nounn see countable noun mastery learningn an individualized and diagnostic approach to teaching in which students proceed ...

matching itemn a type of test item or test task that requires test takers to indicate which entries (e.g. words or phrases) on o ...

and most widely applicable measure of the central tendencyof a distribution. see also median, mode meaningn (in linguistics) wha ...

Drills, however, are less commonly used in language teaching today and have been replaced by more communicative teaching strateg ...

f selection of learning experiences gevaluation of learning. mean utterance lengthn another term for mean length of utterance me ...

media resources media resourcesn in teaching, all resources involved in teaching and learning including tech- nology, audio and ...

memorizingnmemorizevmemorizationn the process of establishing information, etc., in memory. The term “memor- izing” usually refe ...

mentoring v in teacher development, a process by which a mentor teacherprovides one-to-one support for a teacher during his or h ...

traditional narrative literature reviews in that the latter combine results from different studies qualitatively. see also effec ...

metalinguistic knowledgen (in language learning) knowledge of the forms, structure and other aspects of a language, which a lear ...

learners, for example, provide a way of making sense of experience for the individual and for others. For example: A textbook is ...

2 such practices, procedures, beliefs themselves. One can for example criticize or praise the methodology of a particular langua ...

lecture; recognizing the functions of pitchand intonation. For the purposes of syllabus design, the four macroskills of reading, ...

mingle n, v a classroom activity in which learners walk around the classroom and talk to other learners to complete a task. mini ...

The term “minimal pair” is also sometimes used of any two pieces of language that are identical except for a specific feature or ...

b reversal miscue: the reader reverses the order of words (e.g. the child reads Mrs Barnaby was a rich kind old ladyinstead of M ...

MLU^2 an abbreviation for Multi-Word Lexical Unit, a lexeme consisting of more than one word. For example, compound nouns and ph ...

modeln (in language teaching) someone or something which is used as a standard or goal for the learner, e.g. the pronunciation o ...

modelling^2 a learning process in which a person observes someone’s behaviour and then consciously or unconsciously attempts to ...