LEPn
an abbreviation for limited english proficiency
leptokurtic distribution n
see kurtosis
LES n
an abbreviation for limited English speaker
less commonly-taught languagen
also LCTL
of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on earth, only a handful
are widely taught, and many are hardly ever taught. As a result, the less
commonly-taught languages do not have nearly the same level of resources
(textbooks, trained teachers, opportunities for secure employment, scholars
who specialize in the language) as languages that have a long history of
support by the educational establishment.
lesson plan nlesson planning n
a description or outline of (a) the goals or objectivesa teacher has
set for a lesson (b) the activities and procedures the teacher will use to
achieve them, the time to be allocated to each activity, and the order to
be followed, and (c) the materials and resources which will be used during
the lesson.
lesson structure n
see structuring
level^1 n
a layer in a linguistic system, e.g. word level, phrase level. Often, these
levels are considered to form a scale or hierarchy from lower levels
containing the smaller linguistic units to higher levels containing larger
linguistic units, e.g. morphemelevel – word level – phrase level – clause
level, etc.
It is also sometimes said that the items on each level consist of items on the
next lower level: clauses consist of phrases, phrases of words, words of
morphemes, etc.
see also rank, tagmenics
level^2 n
see pitch level
level