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reflexive pronoun n a form of a pronounwhich is used when the direct or indirect objectin a sentence refers to the same person o ...

register n 1 see style 2a speech variety used by a particular group of people, usually sharing the same occupation (e.g. doctors ...

irregular verb. Irregular verbs in English may form the past tense (a) by using the same form as the present tense; upset 6 upse ...

relativity n see linguistic relativity relativization n in syntax, the process by which a relative clause is derived from an und ...

I bought a, uhm... what do you call it...a floor polisher. A repair made by another person (i.e. which is other-initiated) is kn ...

representation n a notational device (such as a tree diagram) used to represent syntactic structure. By extension, an assumed co ...

involved in language learning require not only the automatization of knowledge and procedures but also the restructuring of info ...

The /r/ used by some speakers in the south-west of England, and in many varieties of American English, is a retroflex sound. see ...

rhetorical question n a forceful statement which has the form of a question but which does not expect an answer. For example, “W ...

right hemispheren see cerebral dominance risk-taking n a personality factor which concerns the degree to which a person is willi ...

e.g. school principal 4 teacher, teacher 4 student(s), lieutenant 4 sergeant. Sometimes people temporarily take on superior role ...

routine n also formula, formulaic speech/expressions/language, conventionalized speech, prefabricated language/speech, fixed exp ...

rubric n in tests and instructional materials, the instructions which indicate to the student what he or she has to do to comple ...

rules of speaking n see conversation rules rule strengthening n see adaptive control of thought running words n the total number ...

S saccade n see fixation pause salience n salient adj also perceptual salience (in language leaming, speech perception, and info ...

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis n see linguistic relativity sarcasm n see figure of speech savings paradigm n see relearning scaffolding ...

scale n (in statistics and testing) the level or type of quantification produced by a measurement. Four different scales are oft ...

Scanning may be contrasted with skimmingor skim-reading, which is a type of rapid reading which is used when the reader wants to ...

and other information are linked together to form a unit. This underlying structure is known as the “scheme” or “macrostructure” ...

e how balance and integration of different elements in the syllabus or of different skills will be achieved. school-based curric ...