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  2. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    The language teachers use when teaching; involves simplifying speech for students; it may be detrimental to learning if it is childish or not close to the natural production of the target language. TEFL vs. TESL TEFL is an acronym for Teaching English as a Foreign Language; TESL, for Teaching English as

  3. Vocabulary learning - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary learning is the process acquiring building blocks in second language acquisition Restrepo Ramos (2015). The impact of vocabulary on proficiency in second language performance "has become […] an object of considerable interest among researchers, teachers, and materials developers" (Huckin & Coady, 1999, p. 182).

  4. Language education - Wikipedia

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    TELL: technology-enhanced language learning; TEFL: teaching English as a foreign language; TEFLA: teaching English as a foreign language to adults; TESOL: teaching English to speakers of other languages; TEYL: teaching English to young learners [51] TPR: Total Physical Response; TPRS: Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling

  5. Applied linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication research, information science, natural language processing, anthropology, and sociology.

  6. Language pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    The development of language pedagogy came in three stages. [citation needed] In the late 1800s and most of the 1900s, it was usually conceived in terms of method.In 1963, the University of Michigan Linguistics Professor Edward Mason Anthony Jr. formulated a framework to describe them into three levels: approach, method, and technique.

  7. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, prosody (/ ˈ p r ɒ s ə d i, ˈ p r ɒ z-/) [1] [2] is the study of elements of speech including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness.These elements occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments: vowels and consonants.

  8. Modern Language Aptitude Test - Wikipedia

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    Harley, B. & D. Hart. "Language Aptitude and Second Language Proficiency in Classroom Learners of Different Starting Ages." Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19 (1997): 379-400. Harley, B. & D. Hart. "Age, Aptitude and Second Language Learning on a Bilingual Exchange." Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning. Ed. P.

  9. Phonetics - Wikipedia

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    [120] [122] [123] The IPA is a useful tool not only for the study of phonetics but also for language teaching, professional acting, and speech pathology. [ 122 ] While no sign language has a standardized writing system, linguists have developed their own notation systems that describe the handshape, location and movement.