Glossary of terms

CALL

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

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

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

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

TTT

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"

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.

The ability to produce grammatically correct sentences.

To call upon an individual student by name

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

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

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

Two-way communication between language users.

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

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.

STT

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.