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EAP n
an abbreviation for English for Academic Purposes
see english for special purposes
early-exit /late-exit bilingual education programmes n
a term to distinguish two kinds of Transitional Bilingual Education pro-
grammes.
Early-exit programmes move children from bilingual classes in the first or
second year of schooling. Late-exit programmes provide bilingual classes
for three or more years of elementary schooling.
Ebonics n
another term for african american english, the term derived from
“ebony” +“phonics” or “black sounds”. Ebonics has also been used as a
superordinate term to refer generally to West-African–European language
mixtures, with USEB (United States Ebonics) referring specifically to US
language varieties.
echo-correctionn
an error correction technique in which the teacher repeats a student’s error
with rising intonation, drawing the student’s attention to the error so that
he or she can self-correct it. For example:
Student: She wearcontact lenses.
Teacher: wear?
Student: She wearscontact lenses.
echoism n
another term for onomatopoeia
echolalia n
a type of speech disorder or aphasiain which all or most of a speaker’s
utterances consist of the simple repetition or echoing of words or phrases
which the speaker hears.
echo question n
see question
eclectic method n
a term sometimes used for the practice of using features of several different
methodsin language teaching, for example, by using both audiolingual
and communicative language teaching techniques.