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jargonn
speech or writing used by a group of people who belong to a particular
trade, profession, or any other group bound together by mutual interest,
e.g. the jargon of law, medical jargon.
A jargon has its own set of words and expressions, which may be incom-
prehensible to an outsider. The term jargon is typically not used by the
group itself but by those unfamiliar with that particular type of language,
and/or by those who dislike it.
Jargon is sometimes also used for the first (developmental) stage of a pidgin
language, where there is a great deal of individual variation, a simple sound
system, very short sentences and a restricted number of words.
jigsaw activityn
in language teaching a type of information gapactivity in which groups
of learners have different information that is needed to put together the
solution to a task. In jigsaw listening or reading activities, different groups
in the class may process separate but related parts of a text and then later
combine their information to reconstruct the whole through class discussion
or group interaction.
see also co-operative learning
journaln
see learning log
juncturen
the boundary between two phonemes accounting for the flow and pauses
between sounds in speech. Three types of juncture are commonly recognized.
1 close junctureis characterized by a rapid transition between two sounds,
as between /s/ and /p/ in speak
2 open junctureis characterized by a slight pause between sounds, as in
pronouncing I screamversus ice cream
3 terminal junctureis characterized by a pause after a sound, as before and
after “Mrs Brown” in “My employer, Mrs Brown, is from Canada”.