Glossary

A Glossary of Terms and Names Related to Second Language Teaching
This is a concise guide to the technical terms and the names of theorists/practitioners who have influenced second language teaching.  The terms come from the textbook and other sources.  After most entries, you will find a page number in parenthesis to direct you to a related discussion in the textbook Teaching Language in Context (1993) by Alice Omaggio-Hadley.  Other sources will include the author, date of publication and page number.  I hope you will find this resource helpful as you complete the readings and assignments for this course.  If you would like to suggest additions to the glossary, please send your ideas to <kbueno@siue.edu>.

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Acceptability
Access
Accommodation
Accuracy
Achievement Test
Acquisition
Acquisition Orders
ACTFL Proficiency
Advance Organizer
Affective Activities
Affective Filter
Analytical Practice
Analytical Scoring
Approach
Assimilation
Assimilation Phase
Atlas Complex
Audio-Lingual Method
Ausabel, David
Authentic Materials
Automatic Processing

"Carefree Style"
Chomsky, Norm
Classical Conditioning
Cloze Activity
Cognitive Learning Theory
Coherence
Communication
Communicative Activities
Communicative Competence
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Comparability
Competence
Componential- Weighing Score
Composing
Composing-Oriented Activity
Comprehensible Input
Comprehensible Output Hypothesis
Comprehension
Comprehension Stage
Conditioning
Connectionism
Connotation
Content
Content-Based Instruction
Context
Contextualized Practice
Controlled Processing
Convention
Convergent Test Item
Cultural Theme
Culture
Cummulative Evaluation

Decoding/Intensive Stage
Development Stages
Direct Method
Discourse Competence
Discourse Transformation
Discrete-Point Test Item
Divergent Test Item

Eclecticism
Economy
Elaboration
Emergent Model
Empiricist
Environmental Mode
Errors
Expressive Writing
Extensive Reading

Feedback
Flexibility
Flexibility Measures
Fluency
Forms
Formulaic Speech
Fossilization
Functions

Global Test Item
Grammatical Competence
Grammar Drills
Guided Interaction Phase

Holistic Scoring
Hybrid Test
Humanistic Methods

Immersion
Information-Gap Activity
Input
Input Activities
Integrative Test Item
Intensive Reading
Interactional View of Meaning
Interactive Model of Reading
Interactive Model of Writing
Interference
Interlanguage
Israeli National Oral Proficiency Test (INOPT)

Krashen, Stephen
Kinesthetic

Learning
Lesson Plan
"Lexical Analog Hypothesis"
Long-Term Evaluation

Meaningful Learning
Meaningful Practice
Mechanical Drills
Methodology
Mentalist
Monitor Model of Second Language Acquisition
Monitoring
Multilayered Communicative Event

Natural Approach
Natural Order Hypothesis Open-Ended Activities
Open-Ended Test Items
Operant Conditioning
Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)
Originality
Output
Overgeneralization

Paradigm
Passive Skill
Performance
Performance Error
Personalized Practice
Personalizing Phase
Phoneme
Piaget, Jean
Planning
Portfolio
Pragmatic Competence
Precommunicative Practice
Preparation Stage
Prelistening Activities
Prewriting
Primary Trait Scoring
Production Strategies
Proficiency Test
Proficient
Psycholinguistic Processes

Quiz

Rationalist
Receptive Skill
Referentially Oriented Activity
Register
Relevance
Rescanning
Restructuring
Revising
Revision
Rote Learning

Sampling
Schema/Schemata (pl.)
Schema Theory
Semi-Structured Writing Assignment
Short-Term Evaluation
Silent Way
Simmulated Authentic Discourse
Skimming/Scanning Stage
Skinner, B.F.
Sociolingistic Competence
Stage Model of Writing
Strategic Competence
Strategy
Structured Input Guidelines
Structured Practice
Structured Process Method
Stylistics
Suggestopedia
Summative Evaluation
Syllabus Tabula Rasa
Task-Based Activities
"Teacher-Talk" or "Teacherese"
Teaching Unit
Technique
Test
Text Type
Textual Competence
Top-Down Models
Total Physical Response
Transcription-Oriented Activities
Transferable/Integrative Skills
Transfer Universal Grammar Theory Variability
"Vernacular Style"

Wash-Back Effect
Writing


 
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