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2 the total programme of formal studies offered by a school or institution, as in the secondary school curriculum. curriculum^2 ...

2 social and economic efficiency: the view that the curriculum should focus on the practical needs of learners and society and t ...

D Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment n a package of computer tools to help students develop their skills in writing and cri ...

DCT of sentences produced by learners at different stages of learning, which could later be analyzed for a variety of purposes. ...

dead language dead language n also extinct language a language that no longer has any native speakers. decision-making n in teac ...

For example: I suppose you’re coming this evening. often functions as a question. I’d like you to leave immediately. often funct ...

decreolization n the process by which a creolebecomes more like the standard language from which most of its vocabulary comes. F ...

inadequate as a basis for success in school. Applied linguists have criticized this hypothesis and contrasted it with the differ ...

deictic properly formed utterances, it is believed that exposure to input alone is insufficient to explain how language is learn ...

dependability demonstrative n a word (a pronounor a determiner) which refers to something in terms of whether it is near to or d ...

dependency grammar dependency grammar n a grammatical theory in which the verb is considered to be the central and most importan ...

derivation I will put the money in the bankor I will spend it. independent independent clause clause I am going straight homeaft ...

derived score n (in statistics) any type of score other than a raw score. A derived score is calculated by converting a raw scor ...

a number that represents some feature of the data, such as measures of central tendencyand dispersion. descriptive writing n see ...

developmental error n an errorin the language use of a first or second language learner which is the result of a normal pattern ...

diagnostic questionnaire developmental sequence n (in second and foreign language learning) a succession of phases in acquiring ...

diagnostic test n a test that is designed to provide information about L2 learners’ strengths and weaknesses. For example, a dia ...

dialectology n the study of the regional variations of a language (see dialect). Usually, studies in dialectology have concentra ...

dichotic listening n a technique which has been used to study how the brain controls hearing and language. Subjects wear earphon ...

diminutive difference hypothesis n see deficit hypothesis differential item functioning n a test item that functions differently ...