words, or whether or not they made sense. Two types of scoring procedure
are used:
a the test taker must guess the exact word that was used in the original
passage (as in the above example). This is called the exact word
method.
b the test taker can guess any word that is appropriate or acceptable in the
context. This is called the acceptable word method(also the appropriate
word method, the acceptable alternative method, and the contextually
appropriate method).clustern
see consonant cluster
clustering n
see brainstorming
cluster reductionn
see consonant cluster reduction
CMCn
an abbreviation for computer-mediated communication
CMSn
see learning management system
coachingn
an approach to teacher development in which teachers work together in
mutual, collaborative professional development. Unlike mentoring, with
coaching the relationship is usually reciprocal. Both teachers are working
to improve their teaching and involved in on-going peer observation.
coarticulationn
in phonetics, the overlapping of adjacent articulations.
In phonology, the spreading of phonetic features to neighbouring segments.
see assimilation
cocktail party phenomenonn
the ability that humans have in social gatherings to listen selectively to
speech coming from one source (for example, a conversation some distance
away) while ignoring other sources (for example, the speech of other guests,
even those who are closer). redundancyin conversation helps make this
possible, but the phenomenon is a specific example of the more general
cluster