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catenation n catenate v the linking of sounds together in speech, such as the grouping of phonemes into syllables, and the group ...

CEELTn an abbreviation for Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers CEIBTn an abbreviation for Certificate in Engl ...

cerebral dominancen also lateralization the development of control over different functions in different parts of the brain. As ...

the conscious adoption of features of African American Vernacular English that have covert prestige. This may be contrasted with ...

CHILDESn a database of longitudinal language acquisition data maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. child languagen the type ...

1 a unit of text that is longer than a sentence and shorter than a paragraph 2 a unit of language longer than a word but shorter ...

word theis usually pronounced with a tense vowel in its citation form, while it has a lax vowel when it is followed in context b ...

Some languages such as Malay, Chinese, and various African languages have an extensive system of classifiers. In English, a few ...

because of the particular social roles students and teachers have in classrooms and the kinds of activities they usually carry o ...

classroom managementn (in language teaching) the ways in which student behaviour, movement, interaction, etc., during a class is ...

For example: I liked her expensive new car. George hates working in the garden. Phrases are usually classified according to thei ...

1 establishing an atmosphere in which academic goals are emphasized 2 promoting high standards and monitoring and rewarding achi ...

closed captioned films see subtitles closed-captionsn see subtitles closed-choice questionsn also closed question see question c ...

are often achieved through an exchange of three or more moves, they are often preceded by pre-closings, such as anyway, I have t ...

words, or whether or not they made sense. Two types of scoring procedure are used: a the test taker must guess the exact word th ...

human ability to pay attentionselectively to some stimuli while ignoring others. see also dichotic listening codan see syllable ...

There has been a great deal of controversy over Bernstein’s codes as they have been linked to theories which relate language lea ...

For example, an older Chinese person in Singapore may use Hokkien (a Southern Chinese dialect) at home, Singapore English at wor ...

shared by the two variables, i.e. 51% of the variability is not shared or predicted by the variables. cognaten, adj a word in on ...

cognitive demand of instructionn also cognitive load the cognitive demands of instruction in academic subject matter in formal s ...