balanced bilingualn
a person who is equally proficient in two languages.
bandn
(in testing) a level of performance in a rating scale that describes what a test
taker has achieved in a test.
see also level
bandscales n
see standards
bare infinitiven
see infinitive
bar notationn
(in some linguistic theories) a device used to give a more detailed and
consistent analysis of constituents.
For example, the noun phrase:
the mayor of Casterbridge
can be shown as:
N – mayor
Nc(called N-bar) – mayor of Casterbridge
Ncc(called N-double-bar) – the mayor of Casterbridge
In a diagrammatic representation it would be:
basalsee also x-bar theorybasaladj
when a course to teach reading has a number of graded parts, the first
or most basic part is called the basal reading programme, and uses basic
reading textbooks called basal readers.