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organize, and practise language would the term “situational method” strictly apply. situational syllabus n see situational metho ...

SLA n an acronym for second language acquisition slang n casual, very informal speech, using expressive but informal words and e ...

social constructionism n also social construction of knowledge the theory that knowledge is constructed through social interacti ...

social dialectal variation n another term for sociolectal variation see sociolect social distance n the feeling a person has tha ...

social strategies n see learning strategy societal bilingualism n also multilingualism the coexistence of two or more languages ...

sociolect adj also social dialect a variety of a language (a dialect) used by people belonging to a par- ticular social class. T ...

sociolinguistic transfer n using the rules of speaking associated with one’s own language and speech community when speaking a s ...

Such sound changes are still continuing and often differences can be observed between the pronunciation of older and younger spe ...

source language^1 n (in language borrowing) a language from which words have been taken into another language. French was the so ...

special education n alsospecial ed in the US, provision of schooling or special support for those whose needs cannot be readily ...

spectrograph ‘prints’ out a spectrogram on special paper. A time scale is shown along the horizontal axis and a scale of frequen ...

speech act classification n The philosopher Searle established a five-part classification of speech acts: acommissive: a speech ...

English medium education is frequently called the acrolect. The basilect is the sub-variety used by those with rather low levels ...

The components of a speech event are its setting, the participants and their role relationships, the message, the key (see key^1 ...

speech repertoire n the languages or language varieties that a person knows and uses within his or her speech community in every ...

formal style: I should most certainly like to attend your ball, Sir Reginald. colloquial style: I’d love to come to your do, Reg ...

the test is usually easy so that any test taker is expected to get every item right given sufficient time. see also power test s ...

of the test), which are assumed to be parallel. The resulting reliability esti- mate is a parallel-form reliability coefficient ...

1 Survey: the student looks through the chapter or text, looks at headings, pictures, summaries, etc., to get an overall idea of ...

stance n in addition to communicating ideas and information, speakers and writers can also express personal feelings, attitudes, ...