control applications by pointing, clicking or dragging, as with a desk-top
mouse. Many language courses now come with interactive whiteboard
software.Interagency Language Round Tablen
also ILR
a collective name for a group of United States Government agencies, such
as the Foreign Service Institute, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
the Defense Language Institute, involved in teaching and using languages.
The ILR Language Skill Level Descriptions provide assessment in all four
language skills.
intercultural communicationn
also interdiscourse communication/intercultural discourse
an interdisciplinary field of research that studies how people communicate
and understand each other across group boundaries or discourse systems
of various sorts including national, geographical, linguistic, ethnic, occu-
pation, class or gender-related boundaries and how such boundaries affect
language use. This could include the study of a corporate culture, a profes-
sional group, a gender discourse system, or a generational discourse system.
interdental adj
describes a speech sound (a consonant)produced with the tip of the
tongue between the upper and lower teeth, e.g. /q/ and /;/ in the English
words /qik/ thickand /;is/ this.
see also manner of articulation, place of articulation
interfacen
in SLA, the relationship between implicit and explicit learning and know-
ledge. The strong interfaceposition holds that explicit knowledge can be
transformed into implicit knowledge through the process of automatiza-
tion, which is a consequence of practice. The no-interfaceposition holds
that explicit and implicit knowledge develop independently and are encap-
sulated systems, i.e. changes in one do not produce changes in the other. In
this view, the fact that a learner of English may have both intuitive and
explicit knowledge about a particular phenomenon (such as the use of tense
and aspect) would be no more than a coincidence. Various weak-interface
positions have also been articulated. For example, explicit knowledge may
be successfully incorporated into the implicit knowledge system if it
becomes available at just the right time in the development of the implicit
system, or explicit knowledge about the regularities of a language may help
learners to notice these regularities when processing input, which leads to
the development of implicit knowledge.
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