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In English, it occurs very frequently in unaccented syllables, e.g. -mousin /cfeimvs/ famous, -ment in /cmupvmvnt / movementand ...

screening test n see admissions test script n also frame (in cognitive psychology) units of meaning consisting of sequences of e ...

secondary stress secondary stress n see stress second conditional n see conditional forms second language n in a broad sense, an ...

sound phenomena as accent (see accent^1 ) and intonation, which may stretch over more than one segment. selected-response item n ...

self-access adj (of instructional materials) the capacity of materials to be used indepen- dently by learners without the guidan ...

motivation, seeing these as a continuum rather than a dichotomy and links self-determination to the importance of three basic hu ...

self-monitoring as an aspect of their on-going professional development. Techniques used include keeping a journal of their teac ...

SEM^2 n an abbreviation for structural equation modelling semantic component n see generative theory semantic components n anoth ...

semantic mapping n a classroom technique in which a visual representation of ideas in a text or conceptual relationships within ...

containing cause pessimismfaster than sentences containing cause optimism. It is an open question if non-native speakers become ...

sense n the place which a word or phrase (a lexeme) holds in the system of rela- tionships with other words in the vocabulary of ...

is a sentence fragment because it is a dependent clause which contains a subordinating conjunction (see conjunction) and should ...

4 prerequisite learning (an item is taught because it provides a foundation for the next step in the learning process) 5 whole t ...

For example in producing the sentence The dog chased the cat, in a serial- order model each word the speaker produces determines ...

sheltered English n alsosheltered instruction an approach to the teaching of second language students based on the Canadian mode ...

sight vocabulary n (in teaching reading in the mother tongue) those words which a child can recognize at sight in a reading pass ...

and philosophers include a third item in the process of signification, that is, an abstract conceptof the thing for which the si ...

simplification^1 n (in the study of second language acquisition and error analysis) a term sometimes used to describe what happe ...

simulation^2 n classroom activities which reproduce or simulate real situations and which often involve dramatization and group ...

Both phrases would be daughters of S which “immediately dominates them”. That means that S is the nodeor point in the tree diagr ...