CPE n
an abbreviation for Certificate of Proficiency in English
CPHn
an abbreviation for critical period hypothesis
creative construction hypothesisn
a theory about how second and foreign language learners work out lan-
guage rules. The theory was proposed by Dulay and Burt, who claim that
learners work out the rules of their target language^1 by:
ausing natural mental processes, such as generalization
busing similar processes to first language learners
c not relying very much on the rules of the first language
dusing processes which lead to the creation of new forms and structures
which are not found in the target language. For example:
She goedto school. (instead of She went to school)
What you aredoing? (instead of What are you doing?)
creative thinkingn
in education, innovative and adaptive thinking based on the ability to iden-
tify problems, form hypotheses, and apply novel and appropriate solutions
to unfamiliar and open-ended tasks. An important goal of many educa-
tional programmes is to develop students’ creative thinking skills.
creative writingn
types of writing such as fiction, drama and poetry that reflect the writer’s
originality, imagination, feelings and which do not describe factual events.
creolen
a pidginlanguage which has become the native language of a group of
speakers, being used for all or many of their daily communicative needs.
Usually, the sentence structures and vocabulary range of a creole are far
more complex than those of a pidgin language. Creoles are usually classified
according to the language from which most of their vocabulary comes, e.g.
English-based, French-based, Portuguese-based, and Swahili-based creoles.
Examples of English-based creoles are Jamaican Creole, Hawaiian Creole
and Krio in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
see also creolization, post-creole continuum
creolizationn
the process by which a pidginbecomes a creole.
Creolization involves the expansion of the vocabulary and the grammatical
system.
creolization