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communicative behaviour with people who typically use them or situations where they are typically used. prototype theoryn see pr ...

psycholinguisticsn psycholinguisticadj the study of (a) the mental processes that a person uses in producing and understanding l ...

punctuationn the use of graphic marks such as commas, semicolons, dashes and periods to clarify meaning in written sentences or ...

Q qualifier^1 n qualify v (in traditional grammar) any linguistic unit (e.g. an adjective, a phrase, or a clause) that is part o ...

1 the formulation of a quality assurance policy 2 the description of standards for aspects of quality, such as teachers, employm ...

c through the use of intonation, as in Ready?(with rising intonation) dby the use of a question tagsuch as isn’t it, is it, can ...

questionnaire d the choice ofconvergent or divergent questions e how often teachers answer their own questions. see also display ...

R r^2 an abbreviation for coefficient of determination racialization n A process by which people are defined according to differ ...

higher rank clause group (verbal, nominal, etc.) word (verb, noun, etc.) morpheme lower rank The term was first used by Halliday ...

the number of syllables per minute minus the time taken up by pausing. Usually, the longer and more frequent the pauses, the slo ...

rationalist position n another term for innatist hypothesis ratio scale n see scale raw score n (in testing and statistics) a sc ...

said to be cultural differences concerning the degree to which standard or literary prose can be writer-based or should be reade ...

select details relevant to main ideas and also to generate implied main ideas from detailed information. reading for gist n also ...

realia a the type of reading material (e.g. fiction or non-fiction) b the reader’s purpose (e.g. to gain information, to find th ...

reality principle reality principle n (in speech act theory) the principle that in conversation, people are expected to talk abo ...

receptive skills recast n also corrective recast, implicit negative feedback in second language acquisition, a type of negative ...

receptive vocabulary n alsorecognition vocabulary, passive vocabulary the total number of words a person understands, either in ...

reconstruction activity n an activity in which students read or listen to a text and then reconstruct it. dictationand dictoglos ...

reduced speech form n another term for weak form reduced vowel n an unstressed vowel that is pronounced with a noncontrasting, c ...

referring expression n see binding principle referring tone n an intonation pattern which indicates that something that is said ...