vowelsare those that can occur in stressed open syllables such as bee, bay,
bah, saw, low, boo, buy, bough, boy, cue. The lax vowels are those that can
occur in monosyllables closed by /º/ such as sing, length, sang, long, hung.terminology n
1 the special lexical items which occur in a particular discipline or subject
matter. For example clause, conjunction, and aspectare part of the
terminology of grammar.
2 the development or selection of lexical items for concepts in a language.
Terminology is often a part of language planning, since when lan-
guages are being adapted or developed for different purposes (e.g. when
a national language is being developed) new terms are often needed
for scientific or technical concepts.
see also special languages, standardization
term of address n
another term for address form
TESL n
an acronym for Teaching English as a Second Language, used either to
describe the teaching of English in situations where it is a second lan-
guage or to refer to any situation where English is taught to speakers of
other languages.
TESOL n
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. The acronym can be
used to refer both to the US-based organization of that name and to
describe the teaching of English in situations where it is either a second
languageor a foreign language. In British usage this is more commonly
referred to as ELT, i.e. English Language Teaching.
test n
any procedure for measuring ability, knowledge, or performance.
see also achievement test, cloze test, discrete-point test, language
aptitude test, placement test, proficiency test, progress test,
TOEFL test
test battery n
another term for battery of tests
test bias n
see bias
test bias