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cognitive loadn the idea that the more a person has to learn or process in a short amount of time, the more difficult it is to p ...

mind; it is concerned with how knowledge is represented in the mind, how language is understood, how images are understood, and ...

In written texts coherence refers to the way a text makes sense to the readers through the organization of its content, and the ...

collaborative researchn (in teacher development programmes) research that is carried out by a teacher in collaboration with othe ...

do collocates with damage,duty, and wrong, but not with trouble,noise, and excuse: do a lot of damage, do one’s duty, do wrong m ...

commissive n see speech act classification common coren (in language teaching) those basic aspects of a language (e.g. vocabular ...

messagewhich is transmitted, and a person or persons for whom this message is intended (the receiver). Communication is studied ...

an approachto foreign or second language teaching which emphasizes that the goal of language learning is communicative competenc ...

communicative drilln see meaningful drill communicative functionn the extent to which a language is used in a community. Some la ...

community literacyn Reading skills associated with non-school-related reading, such as those required to participate in neighbou ...

comparative historical linguisticsn also comparative philology, philology, historical linguistics a branch of linguistics which ...

compensatory strategyn A communication strategy in which a learner compensates for the fact that a task may be beyond his or her ...

competency based teachingn also competency based education /instruction an approach to teaching that focuses on teaching the ski ...

complement(ary) clausen see complement complementizer n any of a set of clause-introducing words, such as thatin He thought that ...

complex transitive verbn see transitive verb componential analysisn 1 (in semantics) an approach to the study of meaning which a ...

a free composition, in which the student’s writing is not controlled or limited in any way, such as essay questions, or writing ...

compound sentencen see complex sentence compound subjectn a subject which consists of two or more elements joined by and and nor ...

abefore learners are taught speaking, there should be a period of training in listening comprehension bcomprehension should be t ...

the use of a computer in a teaching programme. This may include: a a teaching programme which is presented by a computer in a se ...

translation with the aid of a computer program, usually a database containing examples of previously translated sentences, phras ...