lecture; recognizing the functions of pitchand intonation. For the purposes
of syllabus design, the four macroskills of reading, writing, speaking,
and listening may be further analyzed into different microskills.
see also language skillsmicro-sociolinguisticsn
see sociolinguistics
microteachingn
a technique used in the training of teachers, in which different teaching
skills are practised under carefully controlled conditions. It is based on the
idea that teaching is a complex set of activities which can be broken down
into different skills. These skills can be practised individually, and later com-
bined with others. Usually in microteaching, one trainee teacher teaches
a part of a lesson to a small group of his or her classmates. The lesson
may be recorded on tape or videotape and later discussed in individual or
group tutorials. Each session generally focuses on a specific teaching task.
Microteaching thus involves a scaling-down of teaching because class size,
lesson length, and teaching complexity are all reduced.
mid voweln
see vowel
migrant educationn
education programmes for either newly arrived immigrants or for agricul-
tural workers and their families and other shifting populations, depending
on how the term “migrant” is defined in a particular context.
mim-mem methodn
a term for the audiolingual method, because the method uses ex-
ercises such as pattern practice (see drill) and dialogues which make use
of the mimicry (imitation) and memorization of material presented as a
model.
mind mapn
also word maps, spidergrams
a technique for organizing new vocabulary or other learning content,
that involves organizing learning items in a way that shows groupings
or relationships between words. A key word may serve as a link between
related words and concepts, expressed diagrammatically. Mind maps are
sometimes used as part of the planning stage in composition classes.
mind map