GLOSSARY

TPR “Total Physical Response”

A teaching technique where by a learner (usually young learner) responds to language input with body motions. 

Acquisition vs learning

Is a subconscious process identical in a important ways to the process children utilize in acquiring their first language, and learning is a conscious process that result in knowing

about the rules of language.

Mother tongue

A person's native language that is, a language   learned from birth.

Silent period

Is the idea that when a language is learned, there should be a period in which the learner is not expected to actively

produce any language. This is based on observations of a listening period in infants when they learn a first language.

EFL "English as a Foreign Language“

A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non native speakers in countries where English

is generally not a local medium of communication.

ESL “English as a Second Language”

Students whose first language is something other than English are referred to as "English Language Learners" and are

often designated as ESL in order to receive accommodations  and support with their language

acquisition goals.

Drill

Is a classroom technique used to practise new language. It involves the teacher modelling a word or a sentence and

the learners repeating it.

Approach

The method used or steps taken in setting about a task.

Phonics

Is a method of teaching young learners how to read which focuses on how letters make sounds, and how

these sounds make words. It can be compared with the whole word, or 'Look and say' approach, which focuses

on recognising words.

Digital literacy

Is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology.

Multiple Intelligence

Theory says that there are at least eight different kinds of intelligence, and that human beings possess all of them to

different degrees. Learners' profiles of intelligences will affect their preferences when learning.

Target language

Is the language learners are studying, and also the individual items of language that they want to learn, or the teacher

wants them to learn.