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  2. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of language and communication, helping convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, and information.

  3. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Active vocabulary (also called productive vocabulary) Vocabulary that students actually use in speaking and writing. Active Related to student engagement and participation. For example, listening is perceived to be a passive skill, but is actually active because it involves students in decoding meaning. Alphabet

  4. Productivity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A productive grammatical process defines an open class, one which admits new words or forms. Non-productive grammatical processes may be seen as operative within closed classes : they remain within the language and may include very common words, but are not added to and may be lost in time or through regularization converting them into what now ...

  5. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    It can zone in on one specific aspect of grammar or vocabulary, while still being a primarily communicative activity and giving the students communicative benefits. [ 15 ] This is an activity that should be used primarily in the lower levels of language classes, because it will be most beneficial to lower-level speakers.

  6. Extramural English - Wikipedia

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    Research studies report several learning benefits of EE, such as promoting vocabulary acquisition, [9] [10] fostering learner autonomy, [11] increasing literacy development [12] and encouraging self-regulated learning. [13] To bridge learning English outside and inside the classroom some teachers use a 30-day challenge with a focus on EE ...

  7. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Usually, productive/expressive language is considered to begin with a stage of pre-verbal communication in which infants use gestures and vocalizations to make their intents known to others. According to a general principle of development, new forms then take over old functions, so that children learn words to express the same communicative ...

  8. Terminology - Wikipedia

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    Terminology science is a branch of linguistics studying special vocabulary. The main objects of terminological studies are special lexical units (or special lexemes), first of all terms. They are analysed from the point of view of their origin, formal structure, their meanings and also functional features.

  9. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    servant- NOM l-lāh-i DEF -god- GEN ʕabd-u l-lāh-i servant-NOM DEF-god-GEN "servant of-the-god: the servant of God" Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of ...