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testee n another term for test taker test equating n see equating test format n a description of the task type which is used to ...

Test of English for International Communication n also TOEIC a test of overall English language proficiency in real-life day-to- ...

test statistic n see also hypothesis testing test taker n also candidate, examinee, or testee a person who takes a test or exami ...

Whereas linguistic description traditionally focused on the structure and function of sentences and their constituents, texts ar ...

text processing n theories of how readers comprehend texts and the sequence of operations they make use of to do so. see interac ...

TG n another term for transformational-generative grammar see generative grammar that-trace effect n in English, a subject canno ...

the introductory paragraph. It describes the aim or purpose of the essay, and contains the main ideas that will be developed in ...

think aloud procedure n a technique used in investigating learning strategies, in which learners think aloud as they are complet ...

time expressions n words or phrases that indicate time, such as after, last weekend, in an hour. time lines n in teaching gramma ...

TKT n also Teaching Knowledge Test a test from Cambridge ESOL for teachers of English to speakers of other languages that may be ...

tone^2 n also pitch movement a change in pitchwhich affects the meaning and function of utterances in discourse. In English, lin ...

a change of pitch begins: the tonic syllable. The ways in which linguists have divided the tone unit into its different parts an ...

the case of written word recognition). In sentence comprehensionor the interpretation of an utterance, the lower level informati ...

topic-centred approach n also topic-based approach n in language teaching, a curriculum, course or syllabus in which content and ...

in matching the two systems of communication. Acquisition of spoken language is said to be limited by this approach. Total Physi ...

trait n a person’s enduring psychological attribute or characteristic (e.g. her L2 ability) underlying and explaining her behavi ...

transfer of training n the transfer of what has been learned in a limited setting (for example, a laboratory experiment) to a ne ...

Time:after a while, afterwards, later Place:nearby, there Addition: also, besides, furthermore Result:accordingly, hence, theref ...

Further choices associated with transitivity would be which roles the participants had in a process and how processes, participa ...

approach to teaching that fails to acknowledge an active role for learners in the learning process. It can be contrasted with ot ...