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aptitude-treatment interaction n the relationship between a learner’s personal strengths and weaknesses in learning and the lear ...

bby referring backwards to something already mentioned: There is a man waiting outside. Who, the manin the brown coat? c by refe ...

many consonants formed towards the back of the oral cavity, producing an overall “heavier” velarized or pharyngealized sound (se ...

4 achievements, which are nondurative and have an inherent end point, for example finish, realize, arrive. grammatical aspect, o ...

discover if the student is able to follow a course of study in a school, or whether extra language teaching is needed. Students ...

assimilation^2 n a process in which a group gradually gives up its own language, culture, and system of values and takes on thos ...

associative memory n a memory system that stores mappings of specific representations to inputs, outputs, and other representati ...

attribution theory n the theory that the causes people attribute to perceived successes and failures in their lives play a signi ...

beliefs, values and understandings can have an influence on how the writer structures the text and the features the writer inclu ...

audio-visual method n also structural global method a method of foreign language teaching which was developed in France in the 1 ...

auditory/oral methodn a method for educating deaf or hearing-impaired children which relies on using their remaining or residual ...

between materials that have been specially prepared to illustrate or practise specific teaching points (such as reading passages ...

automatic processing n the performance of a task without conscious or deliberate processing. In cognitive psychology, two differ ...

autosegmental phonology n a theory of phonology that does not view representations as merely a linear string of segments but in ...

avoidance strategyn when speaking or writing a second/foreign language, a speaker will often try to avoid using a difficult word ...

B BAALn an abbreviation for British Association for Applied Linguistics babblingn speech-like sounds produced by very young chil ...

The destructionof the crops was the result of severe winds. Foregroundingallows important information in a sentence to be highli ...

balanced bilingualn a person who is equally proficient in two languages. bandn (in testing) a level of performance in a rating s ...

base componentn see generative theory base formn another term for root orstem^1. For example, the English word helpful has the b ...

Estimates of the size of a basic vocabulary for language learners range from 800 to 4000 words. basic writingn a subfield of com ...