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the practice of superimposing written text on film or video. From the per- spective of a language learner, subtitled film or vid ...

and effective. Suggestopaedia is said to be a pedagogical application of “suggestology”, the influence of suggestion on human be ...

between actual teaching performance and ideal teaching behaviour, guiding the student teacher’s development and offering suggest ...

sustained silent reading (SSR) n in the teaching of reading, an activity in which classroom time is devoted to silent reading, w ...

syllable n a unit of speech consisting minimally of one vowel and maximally of a vowel preceded by a consonant or consonant clus ...

syllabus design n a phase in curriculum development that deals with procedures for develop- ing a syllabus. see course design, c ...

synecdoche n see figure of speech synonym nsynonymous adjsynonymy n a word which has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as an ...

For example: syntax see also structure syntax^1 nsyntactic adj a major component of the grammarof a language (together with lexi ...

synthetic approach n (in language teaching) a term sometimes used to refer to procedures for developing a syllabusor a language ...

systemic-functional linguistics n an approach to linguistics developed by M.A.K. Halliday that sees lan- guage as a resource use ...

T taboo language n words or expressions, usually of a negative nature, that are considered offensive or embarrassing and that ar ...

tagmemicsn a theory of language originated by the American linguist, Pike. In tagmemic analysis there are three hierarchies or s ...

or work situation or any context in which the learner needs to use the language. Analysis of the communicative and linguistic de ...

task-based language teaching n also TBLT, task-based instruction, task-based learning a teaching approach based on the use of co ...

teachability hypothesis n the idea that the teachability of language is constrained by what the learner is ready to acquire. Ins ...

teacher cognition n also teacher thinking a field of educational research and theory which focuses on the thinking processes, be ...

teacher evaluation n procedures used to gather information about how and how well a teacher teaches. Teacher evaluation may be b ...

teacher training n another term for teacher education teaching portfolion see portfolios teaching practice n also practicum, pra ...

technical writing technical writing n specialized genres of writing that occur in technical fields, such as computer science, en ...

vowelsare those that can occur in stressed open syllables such as bee, bay, bah, saw, low, boo, buy, bough, boy, cue. The lax vo ...