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psychologists like Skinner, Osgood, and Staats to explain first language learning, but these explanations were rejected by adher ...

beta (ß) errorn see type ii error between-groups designn another term for between-subjects design between-subjects designn or be ...

Big Booksn in teaching reading, an enlarged reading text used in early literacy pro- grammes. The enlarged format allows childre ...

subjects and the home language for teaching others. This is sometimes called maintenance bilingual education. c the partial or t ...

When a binary feature can be used to distinguish between two phonemes, like voice with /d/ and /t/, the phonemes are in binary o ...

bi-polar adjectiven see semantic differential biscriptualismn competence in reading and writing two scripts of the same language ...

input to the second rule and [bõ] could not be derived. Bleeding order is contrasted with a feeding order, in which the output f ...

blogn alsoweb blog an electronic journal kept by a blogger, who regularly updates the journal (known as blogging). Blogs normall ...

In linguistics, this type of meaning is studied in paralinguistics. see also proxemics book floodn an approach to the developmen ...

boundary effectn the effect of a test being too easy or too difficult for a particular group of test takers, resulting in their ...

generating ideas. Brainstorming often serves as preparation for another activity. 2 (in teaching writing) a form of prewriting ( ...

bridge coursen in teachingEnglish for Academic Purposes, this is an academic content course (e.g. in history or economics) taugh ...

questions. Buzz groups may be used as preparation for a lecture, or as an activity during a lecture. by-phrasen in syntax, an op ...

C CAn an abbreviation for contrastive analysis. Also an abbreviation for conversation analysis CACDn an abbreviation for compute ...

1 Key English Test (KET)(1) 2 Preliminary English Test (PET) 3 First Certificate in English (FCE) 4 Certificate of Advanced Engl ...

language. The cardinal vowels themselves do not belong to any particular language, but are possible vowels to be used as referen ...

Caretaker speech usually has: a shorter utterances than speech to other adults b grammatically simple utterances c few abstract ...

English marks case only on pronouns. Three cases are recognized: Nominative: I, we, you, he, she, it, they, who Objective: me, u ...

the assumption that the information gathered on a particular individual, group, community, etc., will also be true of the other ...

categorial grammarn see montague grammar categorical perceptionn the ability of humans to focus on distinctive acoustic features ...