Glossary of terms

TTT

To call upon an individual student by name

A reading technique used when the reader wants to find a particular piece of information without reading or understanding the whole text.

The ability to produce grammatically correct sentences.

Practice in which the teacher guides or limits the students' use of language -such as by providing questions to be answered, sentences to be completed, or words or pictures to follow.

A description of the contents of a course and the order in which they are to be taught/learned.

The introduction of new items, when their meanings are illustrated, explained, demonstrated, etc and other necessary information given.

A technique commonly used in language teaching for practising sounds or sentence patterns in a language, based on guided repetition.

STT

Classroom teaching in which one student (or trainee) teaches another, or others.

CALL

When a teacher asks a whole group or class to repeat an example together.

The arrangement of the content of a course or coursebook so that it is presented in a helpful way. It affects the order in which words, word meanings, tenses, structures, topics, functions, skills, etc are presented.

A type of rapid reading when the reader wants to get the main idea(s) from a text.

Two-way communication between language users.

Where the "doing" of an activity is considered to be as important as or more important than the final result or end-product.

A technique used in the training of teachers, in which individual teaching skills are practiced under carefully controlled conditions. Often one trainee teacher teaches a part of a lesson to a small group of his or her classmates.

Used to describe any item/aspect of language given to the class as an example. This is also referred to as the "target language" or "target structure"